Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Monday, June 29, 2015

The Eye


Kashmarin had borne away yet another image of Smurov.  Does it make any difference which? For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases.  Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist. Smurov, however, will live on for a long time. The two boys, those pupils of mine, will grow old, and some image of other of me will live within them like a tenacious parasite.  And then will come the day when the last person who remembers me will die. A fetus in reverse, my image, too, will dwindle and die within the last witness of the crime I committed by the mere fact of living.  Perhaps a chance story about me, a simple anecdote in which I figure, will pass on from him to his son or grandson, and so my name and my ghost will appear fleetingly here and there for some time still.  Then will come the end.  

And yet I am happy.  Yes, happy.  I swear, I swear I am happy.  I have realized that the only happiness in this world is to observe, to spy, to watch, to scrutinize oneself and others, to be nothing but a big, slightly vitreous, somewhat bloodshot, unblinking eye.

- The Eye, p. 103 Vladimir Nabokov



Thursday, June 25, 2015

Path Crowd


Transit Authority


Manhattanites


Manhattanite


Manhattanite


Manhattanite


Manhattanite


Brooks Brothers One Way


Up the Stairs


Early Morning, Late June


Up the Stairs


Be the Rich Eccentric Relative You Wish You Had.


Nassau


Nassau


Man in White


Late Afternoon, June


Red Tie


Bus, Truck


Late Afternoon, June


Leaving the Marriott


Pink Hoodie


Two Men


90 W


Shading


3 Blockades


3 Blockades


6 Lights


Boxers


6:25 Near Wall Street


6:24 Near Wall Street


6:23 Near Wall Street


6:22 Near Wall Street


6:21 Near Wall Street


6:20 Near Wall Street


6:19 Near Wall Street


6:18 Near Wall Street


6:17 Near Wall Street


6:16 Near Wall Street


6:13 Near Wall Street


6:14 Near Wall Street


6:15, Near Wall St


Silverston


Plaza People


Plaza People


Plaza People


Plaza People


Plaza People


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