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2004.11.30 - Hitchhiking to Byzantium
Hitchhiking to Byzantium
Chronicles:
"It seems we are forever travelling to some Byzantium of the mind, the place from where all the images come. That each time we look carefully at something of beauty, it will allow us a step closer. Close our eyes, or not use them to see, and it draws away from us.
That's how life feels for me. I'm the guy by the side of the road with the square of cardboard marked BYZANTIUM. I'll take any lift that seems to be going the right way, that will get me a few steps or miles closer. Any road, any ride, will do. They're all leading in the same direction anyway. Of course, you can never really arrive somewhere that does not exist, but the trip is certainly worth it. There's a lot to see on the way."
Photo shoot for a magazine article. Yes, it WAS my idea... Well, I wouldn't do something this idiotic if it was someone else's cockeyed scheme...
Curiously enough, nobody stopped. (Swiss motorists are a prudent lot, though what I would have done had somebody pulled over will forever remain in the realm of conjecture. But, I still have my little sign...)
Photo © Sedrik Nemeth/L'Illustré
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