the roar of water falling
providing altered states.
with senses filling
and flowing thoughtlessly
within the river — with Sophia
— George Lottermoser
Two Ways of Seeing a River
by Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river!
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Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph, 50 mm Summilux Asph