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Poster for “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (1991)

Paramount Pictures.

“Penelope Awakened by Euryclea with the News of Ulysses’ Return,” Angelica Kauffman, 1772

Oil on canvas.

 

“Torre de Hércules,” Camilo Díaz Baliño, 1933

“A One-Sentence Note Following a Departure”

All rooms in which you are absent

are endlessly and sadly silent.



Photo credit:Berenice Zambrano from DF, Mexico, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

“Ghiacciaio,” Emilio Longoni, 1905

“Glacier.”

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory …”

So here’s a cure for xenophobia.

All one needs to do is meet one of the immigrants who go COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR WAY to be kind to me, even if they are working through a goddam freezing apocalyptic ice storm.

Being really decent and cool has nothing to do with where you were born.