If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Self portrait. Mayfair Plaza Car Park, Sandy Bay. September 2012.

Theme Thursday?

TEMPTATION?

Don't TEMPT me!

Comments

You are so tempting!!

You are also temptingly tall in the picture.

I wish I could say that flattery of others could never harm us but I think it is obvious it does.

Temptation, is such a hard thing to resist. So don't tempt me!!

God bless.

6 September 2012 at 19:04

Brian Miller said…

ha. sometimes but i try not too....and love the wisdom in your title man...nice shadow shot...

6 September 2012 at 20:38

joanne said…

I read and reread the opening quote, and still don't understand how others flattery can hurt us....Sometimes others mean to manipulate us with this flattery, so I guess in that sense it can be harmful...Did I figure it out?!

7 September 2012 at 01:25

The Poet said…

Hello.
Interesting & intriguing quote. The silhouette is pretty tall too. Thanks for sharing.

This Plunderous World

7 September 2012 at 12:01

Kris McCracken said…

Mrsupole, a rush job yesterday. My apologies.

Brian, I get a lot of these.

Joanne, flattery is far more dangerous than criticism. It makes people lazy.

Andy, hello!

7 September 2012 at 12:52

Ritva said…

Hah! Very witty.... :)

8 September 2012 at 05:12

Unspoken said…

HAH! I do believe you are tempted to make us believe you are incredibly tall and lanky! And like temptation sometimes does, there is a shadow concealing the truth!

8 September 2012 at 06:17

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...

This will hurt me...

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