T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 21, 2009, 1:46 pm
Marion Wallace Davidson & Unknown Man, @1905 Reverse of same photo, in the hand of Josephine Hortense Settoon Slocum There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an o...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 19, 2009, 11:55 pm
photo by T.R. Hummer Was murdered on a day by highwaymen, Not natives, at a spot where three roads meet. —Sophocles
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 19, 2009, 11:25 pm
  photo by T.R. Hummer     Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the l...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 19, 2009, 12:23 pm
A Settoon, @1915 Where would one go, if one wanted to travel overnight to somewhere incomparable, to a fantastic mutation of normal reality? —Thomas Mann
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 19, 2009, 11:57 am
Dr. James Elmore and Horse, @1915 There are unknown worlds of knowledge in brutes; and whenever you mark a horse, or a dog, with a peculiarly mild, calm, deep-seated eye, be sure he is an Aristotle o...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 19, 2009, 1:09 am
Pineville, LA, 1927 The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. —Andy Warhol
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 19, 2009, 12:38 am
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 19, 2009, 12:06 am
I have simply ordered a box of maniacs. They can be sent back. They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner. —Sylvia Plath Crated Bees, Hummer Bros. Apiary, @1935 The shipment of bees...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 17, 2009, 6:14 pm
We are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. —Mark Twain
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 16, 2009, 6:33 pm
photo by T.R. Hummer Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. —Toni Morrison  
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 15, 2009, 11:49 pm
photo by T.R. Hummer Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. —The Book of Ruth (King James Bible)
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 15, 2009, 11:20 pm
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. —Gaston Bachelard  
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 15, 2009, 5:51 pm
photo by T.R. Hummer This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 14, 2009, 10:00 pm
      Not only is distance annihilated, but when, as now, the locomotive and the steamboat, like enormous shuttles, shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national de...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 14, 2009, 12:42 pm
Put your shoulder to the wheel. —Aesop photo by T.R. Hummer America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. —Allen Ginsberg
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 14, 2009, 11:54 am
  photo by T.R. Hummer     He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a chunk of stone in the garden. —Spanish Proverb
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 13, 2009, 5:27 pm
    photo by T.R. Hummer       To think of shadows is a serious thing. —Victor Hugo
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 13, 2009, 10:04 am
photo by T.R. Hummer And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light. —Dylan Thomas
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 12, 2009, 11:13 am
A Sampling of Settoons, Springfield LA, @1907 If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically huma...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 12, 2009, 10:41 am
Settoon General Store, Springfield LA, @1900 And I enter the fields and spacious halls of memory, where are stored as treasures the countless images that have been brought into them from all manner o...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 12, 2009, 12:40 am
  C.V. Hummer @1940 In the middle of an ordinary midnight, in the middle of an ocean, My father leans on a ship’s rail and lights a Lucky Strike. Match-bronzed, he is simply himself, a se...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 10, 2009, 3:51 pm
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. Joh...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 10, 2009, 10:29 am
I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes my rage, forgetting everything. ~Pablo Neruda photo by T.R. Hummer When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed in...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 10, 2009, 12:57 am
I should like to be a queen, best. —Alice photo by T.R. Hummer THE Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, glowed on the marble. . . . —T.S. Eliot
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 9, 2009, 6:10 pm
  photo by T.R. Hummer Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. –Barack Obam...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 8, 2009, 12:41 am
Come let us vote against our human nature, Crying to God in all the polling places To heal our everlasting sinfulness And make us sages with transfigured faces. –Vachel Lindsay Health Care 2...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 7, 2009, 2:24 pm
Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn’t rush into it. –David Quammen Working Papers/T.R. Hummer Identity is theft of the self. –Estee Martin  
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 6, 2009, 6:28 pm
    photo by T.R. Hummer   Let us go in; the fog is rising. –Emily Dickinson
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 6, 2009, 5:11 pm
Broken Angel/Photo by T.R. Hummer The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human ...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 5, 2009, 6:28 pm
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. —C. Wright Mills   Sel...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 5, 2009, 6:10 pm
photo by T.R. Hummer No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. –Greil Marcus
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 5, 2009, 5:14 pm
Photo by T.R. Hummer . . . and I thought, No wonder this music comes from here: the rhythm is already there. —Robbie Robertson Photo by T.R. Hummer
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 4, 2009, 3:49 pm
Elmore Slocum, Springfield LA, 1910 – died of yellow fever, 1912 The pure products of America go crazy. –William Carlos Williams
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 3, 2009, 9:52 am
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Nov 2, 2009, 3:32 am

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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Oct 31, 2009, 1:27 pm
This . . . is about Homer. He is our Singer of Tales. Yet, in a larger sense, he represents all singers of tales from time immemorial and unrecorded to the present. . . . concentrates on only one aspe...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Oct 29, 2009, 8:22 pm
You like it under the trees in autumn, Because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves And repeats words without meaning. –Wallace Stevens photo by T.R. Humm...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Mindbook - Oct 29, 2009, 7:14 pm
http://physics.weber.edu/carroll/archimedes/crown.htm Hi, Scott, hi Ascent, bon voyage old wine in new bottles, or maybe that’s old photons in new circuit boards: I’m the last person who should ...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Oct 28, 2009, 2:29 pm
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. –Marcus Aurelius photo by T.R. Hummer
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Oct 28, 2009, 12:51 am
photo by T.R. Hummer The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. –Henry David Thor...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Oct 26, 2009, 10:09 pm
photo by T.R. Hummer Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. &#...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Oct 26, 2009, 1:07 pm
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. –Henry Miller photo by T.R. Hummer Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our l...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Oct 25, 2009, 2:46 pm
photo by T.R. Hummer . . . the Persians, when they made sacrifices to fire, would present food to it on the altar while uttering this phrase: “Eat and feast, O Fire, lord of all the world.̶...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Oct 25, 2009, 1:01 pm
“It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” –The Red Queen, Alice in Wonderland photo by T.R. Hummer “For an evolutionary system, continuing developm...
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T.R. Hummer posted an article on Americamera - Oct 25, 2009, 12:10 am
photo by T.R. Hummer
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