Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Vanity

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 . . . and the fragrance of ego


“Vanity in a newspaperman is like perfume on a whore: they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.”

—Julian Assange, Australian founder of WikiLeaks


• Editorial Comment: Was that you?

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
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PeezPix by Ted Pease 

Luffenholz Beach





Original PeezPix for sale. ted.pease@gmail.com

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