“We look at the present through a rear–view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”
/Marshall McLuhan/

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Impressions

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Miami is a shopping centre with live–in customers.Tokyo is the world’s biggest video installation. Mark Twain on Bermuda: it has many sights but they are easily avoided. And painter Francis Bacon, receiving an invitation to visit Switzerland:“What for,” he ungraciously responded, “to see all those effing views?”, and declined. And El Dorado in Venezuala, I’ve read, is a dump.

To know what happened — click on the image! Nov 2004

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The Titanic was designed by an expert!

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There was a man who became so intrigued with watching salamanders, that he ended up as a salamander watching the man he was.

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Isadora Duncan said that if she could have said what she felt, she wouldn’t have become a dancer. And Edward Hopper said that if he could have expressed himself in words there would be no reason for him to have been a painter. Then there is the busy Italian waiter who, when asked the way to the toilet, apologized saying he couldn’t explain because his hands were full.

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Venice: asymmetric gondolas.

Barcelona: Art Noveau shop facades

Tokyo: narrow tall buildings.

New York: NO STANDING signs.

Hint: Put your mouse over the text.

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