I just realised that this is not a painting by René Magritte
I just realised that this is not a painting by René Magritte
It's a digital image of a painting!
(Six, if you fold the pages back.)
36 2 Reply... or a web link to the digital image ... but, a link is a pipe, so ... Ceci est une pipe !
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The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been lying!
— René Magritte
26 0 ReplyThis one took me a minute. But yes, it's not. Don't linger on that thought too long, though. The words that you read right now... are those my words?
20 1 ReplyAm I the one writing this comment or the one reading it?
14 2 ReplyIf you immediately know that the caldlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
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I love the (currently one) down vote on your post. Clearly not a connoisseur of René's work.
Your shower thought on the other hand is on point!
Nicely done.
18 3 ReplyAgreed. OP did well.
And it's an opportunity for me to re-post this seminal picture (or, one instance of it):
Image by Wendy D. Stolyarov
17 4 ReplyAlso an excuse to post my favourite Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic.
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It really isn't, because this is what I see:
If you use Jerboa, don't be fooled, the image I uploaded isn't actually broken. This is just what broken images look like.
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