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Every Tuesday, we share photographs from our recent or long-ago travels, or just everyday stuff that appealed to our mindful eye and sharp sensibilities as captured through fleeting images.
Swarovski Kristallwelten
When I was left on my own for a few weeks by my family in Germany last year as I was finishing my research fellowship at the International Youth Library in Munich, I spent my weekend touring nearby areas.
The Swarovski Kristallwelten was one of the places I visited in Austria. It is, as to be expected, shining shimmering splendid. Here are photos from the grounds. I will be sharing a few more photos of what’s found inside the museum in the coming weeks.
“I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those…soul-reaching crystalsnot moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart.”
― Turquoise Silence
“The crystal trees among them were hung with glass-like trellises of moss. The air was markedly cooler, as if everything was sheathed in ice, but a ceaseless play of light poured through the canopy overhead. The process of crystallization was more advanced. The fences along the road were so encrusted that they formed a continuous palisade, a white frost at least six inches thick on either side of the palings. The few houses between the trees glistened like wedding cakes, white roofs and chimneys transformed into exotic miniarets and baroque domes. On a law of green glass spurs, a child’s tricycle gleamed like a Faberge gem, the wheels starred into brilliant jasper crowns.”
― The Crystal World
“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: “It shines like a little diamond”,
“What does?”
“This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”
― The Age of Reason
“Diamonds were nothing more than carbon, but carbon in a crystal lattice that made it the hardest known mineral in nature. That was the way we all were headed. I was sure of it. We were destined to be diamonds!”
― The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
“Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.”
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“What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.”
― Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven
“But what’s worth more than gold?”
“Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren’t you worth more than that?”
― Making Money
“Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.”
― A Dance with Dragons
“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.”
― Nicholas Nickleby
“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”
― Life Without Principle
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