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One of the Mysteries

Contradictions, inconsistencies, paradoxes, conundrums.

That's what you call it when you've got a handle on the facts, when you really grasp what's going on, when you can identify what the pieces are and how they interrelate in a bigger story of something that doesn't make sense.

But without that, without identifying the contradictory factors, or the premises that can't logically exist together . . . without that an analysis will never step beyond the domain of mystery. 

For me (most of the time), Beirut continues to be one of the mysteries.

3 comments:

  1. Thank you for your text today. I love the image, as so often, but for me, today, the text is paramount.

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  2. You photos certainly convey a city of mystery to me ... it seems so closely populated and in a wonderful state of decay and construction. Old, new, refurbished in an exotic mix.

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  3. Yes, best not to get too analytical about all the forces going in different direction and just accept the truth of it.

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