A Gender Manifesto Man Feasts On: A Yin-Yangy Quote

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Woman is the being who projects the largest shadow

or the brightest light in our dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

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Photoverio © (#140): Self-Portrait

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© Oliverio
Gray County, Texas 

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Quoting The Doppelganger Of Bowling Legend Al Kamus

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There is no fate that cannot be
surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus 
       

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A Gender Manifesto

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The power of purchase

 keeps us sane

But "using"  what is bought

is soooo mundane

We don't do it 

out of spite

We don't do it 

out of malice

It is our destiny:

SHOPPING

uber alles

 

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Footnote

The text of A GENDER MANIFESTO
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL
but the image is from  here. 

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The Blue Shark In The Pink Sea?

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© Oliverio
Somewhere in Arizona

the blue shark 
in the pink sea
is an image 
entitled
frightfully

but fret not, 
dear viewer:
upon closer 
inspection,

it is actually 
the hood of a car
with aluminum 
siding reflection 







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Halfway Between The B-Day And The D-Day...Is Another VPP

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VPP = Very Personal Page

© Oliverio
Somewhere in Oklahoma

Halfway between
Linda's birthday
and her Mother's
last day on earth
would be Tuesday,
October 13.

That is when this 
picture was taken,
at the sixth of ten 
gas stations where 
I pumped up 
my car.



I left New York at 6AM 

on Sunday, October 11.




By design, I departed 
on my sister's birthday.

The plan was to leave New York
with my fiance and introduce her 
to a wonderful future as a newly-wed
in Southern California.

But the fiance had unfinished business
to attend to. 

Thus, my 2004 Honda Civic was occupied
by one human, six suitcases, and 
the ghost of  a sister.


Linda would have been sixty-nine years old
but she was thirteen when she walked out 
of the water in the above photo.


This image of her has appeared on these pages at least
three times but, for the first time, the foreground
is showing the bagel my mother is offering
to her daughter after Linda's midday swim.

Today, October 16, my Mother–our mother–
celebrated her forty-fourth birthday
with our Father, who immortalized
my sister with his Brownie camera
that sunny summer day in 1959.

Today, is my first full day back in Long Beach
after driving 3100 miles in four days.

Sam died six months before Grace did
and Linda joined her parents four years 
later in 1975.  

But I had some wonderfully funny conversations 
with that Holy Trinity while driving through
New Mexico (or was it Arizona?).  

The only sadness about the cross-country
return journey is that my fiance was not
in the car with me. 

She is not here in Long Beach on this day
but that is guaranteed to change very soon.

Very very soon!

And the wonders of being a newly-wed
at 66 will never cease.

    
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Footnotes
The next Linda Oliverio page is  here. 

It is another  VPP.
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Presently In Transit

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The GoFather of Math is presently in transit.

He will resume posting pages with three days.

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The Right Proportion

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Fear’s got cousins
by the dozens

Doubt and paranoia–
just to name two

If they’re in control
they’ll dig a hole

At the bottom of which is you
 
If you’re in control
you will love your soul

At the top of which is you
 
But do not have no fear:
have it in the right proportion

It can keep you upright
if it’s name is Caution

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Footnote
THE RIGHT PROPORTION is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
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Photoverio © (#139): All Watched over By Prometheus

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© Oliverio (2x)
Rockefeller Plaza

Flags of all nations 
surround tourists 
of all nations, 
basking in 
the tropical gardens
of  Rockefeller Center.

The tropical gardens 
are equipped with both
day and night sections,
any time of day!


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Alpha Beta

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  Ella Menno
  was asked
  one question:
"Where are
  Peek U. Aress?"

  Ella Menno
  would give
  one answer:
  I don't know
  but I am next to Jake

"That is as easy 
  to see
  as A-B-C,"
  said Abe E. Cee


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Footnote
ALPHA BETA is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
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Photoverio © (#138): Every Room

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© Oliverio
Good for 20 Laps

A crack in the floor
before the door
of storage room #64
and twenty more


Every room 
a stockpile 
of memories
and other 
furnishings

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Did Rembrandt Invent Selfies?

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The Mauritshuis in The Hague exhibits 
the best of Dutch paintings from the Golden Age. 

But how did the artists themselves actually look?

From 8 October 2015 through 3 January 2016, 
the museum is hosting the exhibition 

Dutch Self-Portraits - Selfies of the Golden Age

© ArtDaily.org

(Caption is Verbatim)

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Photoverio © (#137): Applied Mathematics In The Bronx

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© Oliverio
Jerome Avenue
@ 175th St.

...The 

Geometry 

Of  An 

Elevated 

Subway...
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For The Eyes Of The Beholder And The Beheld

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Beauty can be a form of camouflage,

one that successfully deceives the beholder

without offering much protection to the wearer.

Judith Thurman

New Yorker Magazine

(1/21/8)

The subject was  Lee Miller.

The next New Yorker page is  here.  

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Hoppefully: His "Best Furniture" Advert

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Emil Otto Hoppe
(1878-1972)

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