Long after the votes have been cast and the polls have closed, the signs remain. Time, if nothing else, pulls them down slowly.
5.3.10
Coming Down Slowly
On the lengthy list of things one need not do without in Beirut: political posters. They're everywhere. I haven't photographed many of them, but that'll likely change eventually. That peeling-off poster (glued up over some other guy's poster) to the right of the left window--politics.
Long after the votes have been cast and the polls have closed, the signs remain. Time, if nothing else, pulls them down slowly.
Long after the votes have been cast and the polls have closed, the signs remain. Time, if nothing else, pulls them down slowly.
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It has been a long time since I have commented on your blog, but I really like your pictures. Thank you! By the way, what is the small red image under the window in the left?
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone's head . . . I'll have to go back and get a close up 'cause I'm not sure what that is.
ReplyDeleteSomehow posters on the wall don't bother me, but posters blowing around annoy me! Political posters here have a date by which they must come down, or the shockjocks have a go onair about the slackness of the political party concerned. I guess Lebanon marches by a different drum.
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