I couldn’t get DEATH to pose for me, so here is Death of Rats.
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Tag: Tod
NO UNMASKING BEFORE MIDNIGHT
I’ve often been outspoken about the fact that I am a fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. One of my favourite characters is – like for many other readers – DEATH. This anthropomorphic personification of death sometimes dabbles in human endeavours like when he takes out his apprentice to a restaurant for a curry or when he eats little pieces of cheese impaled on little wooden skewers next to some grapes. He tries so hard but never quite gets it completely right. I can just see him at a costume party trying to be inconspicuous as a bunny.
There is no justice.
K’lee and Dale have asked for spooky in their Cosmic Photo Challenge. This sculpture on a grave* is kind of spooky but I had to tweak the photo a bit to make it spookier. Bright sunshine and lots of flowers don’t let themselves to spooky, no matter what the subject. The title is an echo of something that Terry Pratchett wrote.
*It wasn’t a real grave but part of an exhibition of graveside gardening at the national garden show in Brandenburg.
For more spooky photos, click here.
There can only be one.
Actually, there are, as you can see, at least three. I saw the above sculpture on a tombstone in an exhibition for graveyard designs. While I think it’s cool I wonder if anybody chose this as an actual tombstone.
Is DEATH crying?
I took this picture with my phone. I keep telling myself that I have to go back to this mural with a proper camera. It is near the home of the Frankfurt football club “Eintracht” – where else?
For One Word Sunday: skull. More skulls can be found here.
J.W.v.G.
There are glimpses of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe all over Frankfurt, which is to be expected since it is his hometown. This huge quote on the side of a building in the Ostend is from his early novel – hence the signatur “the young G.” – alluding to the bible verse “Where, o death, is thy sting?” And he signed a letter to his lover in English, a few years later.
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/05/14/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-may-14-2017/
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