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Gold, carnelian, lapis lazuli, and turquoise pendant from the Tomb of Ramses II, Egypt, 1279-1213 BC

from The Louvre

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The Three Gorges migration monument, Fengjie County, not finished and demolished in 2009. From Highway 318, Luo Dan, 2006.

—light snow, silence, the empty streets, the fog, thrilling cold-so much beauty. Like breathing pure oxygen.

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

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