Quid Pro Quack
(Headline of today’s
Maureen Dowd column)
The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?
-Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The above rather cryptic sequence of pictures may be regarded as a memorial to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, who died at about the time I found the central picture, “Royal Palm Student.” For further details, click on the individual pictures, each of which is taken from a past log24 entry. Also of some relevance: the palm at the end of A Mass for Lucero and the Stevens poem on The Palm at the End of the Mind.
Now I lay me down to sleep …
Comment by oOMisfitOo — Monday, March 22, 2004 @ 4:05 pm