Caption from Getty Images (Wikipedia links added) —

"Philosophers James O Urmson (1915 – 2012, left), a fellow of
Christ Church, Oxford, and Professor James** Langshaw Austin
(1911 – 1960) of Magdalen College, Oxford, at a joint session of
the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Birmingham
University, August 1952. Original publication: Picture Post – 6001 –
It All Depends On What You Mean – pub. 16th August 1952
(Photo by George Douglas/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)"

* Paul Simon song lyric

** Getty Images error. Should be John  Langshaw Austin.

Continued from Monday, Dec. 8, 2014.

“The undermining of standards of seriousness
is almost complete.” 

— Susan Sontag (See November 24, 2007.)

"Respect is often the last and only thing
that the world can offer a deceased or dying person."

— Photojournalist Michel du Cille, who reportedly
    died today at 58 while on assignment in Liberia

The New York Times  online front page
update of 10:11 this morning provides
a sort of antidote to Saturday morning
cartoons.

The update's time suggests a check
of this  journal's most recent post
with the date  10/11. It turns out
to be a meditation on art and
the speed of perception.

Related material:

A linked-to post, Twenty-Four.

"I need a photo opportunity…" —Paul Simon

Click to enlarge.

♫  "I need a photo opportunity, 
      I want a shot at redemption"

—  Paul Simon

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon song lyric

"'Night Sky' is an absorbing series with an interesting premise
that marches to its own drummer…."  — NY Post , May 18.

See as well posts tagged "Bedrock" in this  journal.

"I need a photo opportunity . . . " — Paul Simon

Augustine Confessiones 3 3.1.1

Related meditations —

A more straightforward image —

"I need a photo opportunity . . ." — Song lyric, Paul Simon

For those who are
less than thrilled
by St. Augustine:

See also Margaret Qualley's "Kenzo World" dance.

Those less than thrilled by Qualley's highly energetic,
but very unclassical, dance may review the Log24 post
Raiders of the Lost Images (Feb. 27, 2018).

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon

"I need a photo opportunity . . ." — Paul Simon

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon