Tu Fu, Las Meninas,

Winding River (2)
--Tu Fu

I come back from the court each day and pawn some spring clothing,
Every day I return to the river as drunk as I can be.
I have many debts for wine all over the place,
For men to live to seventy has always been unusual.
I see the butterflies go deeper and deeper between the flowers,
And dragonflies in leisured flight between drops of water.
As we're told, passing time is always on the move,
So little time to know each other: we should not be apart.

(Steven Owen, trans.)
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Las Meninas

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Picasso, looking on this painting, once said "The door Jose Nieto holds open suggests the entrance of fascist soldiers into the studio of Velazquez with a warrant for his arrest."
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Google Earth goes to the Prado, somewhat ungracefully
The left cheek of la Infanta has been extensively restored. Difficult to imagine her before the fire

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Havana
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NewZild Mom
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Hubble constant: new accuracy 74.2 kilometers per second per megaparsec (error margin of ± 3.6).
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