{"id":1005,"date":"2012-04-15T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2012-04-15T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:19:37","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-two-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge: Two subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"

The subject of this photo is clearly the architecture.\u00a0 But then, I can’t stop looking at its left edge.\u00a0 The photo is one of many in my father’s World War II album, from the months when he was in the Middle East, mostly Egypt.\u00a0 He entitled it “Temple”, though I’m pretty sure the photo was taken in a mosque.<\/p>\n

I have a carpet on my floor closely resembling those on the “temple” floor, which makes me feel the 70 years which have passed since the war are nothing in the history of Oriental carpet designs, and nothing in the history of geometrical forms covered in stylised vines and wreaths, all of it hinting at the perfection of God.\u00a0 The written messages fascinate me, all the more because I can’t read them.<\/p>\n

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The subject of this photo is clearly the architecture.\u00a0 But then, I can’t stop looking at its left edge.\u00a0 The photo is one of many in my father’s World War II album, from the months when he was in the Middle East, mostly Egypt.\u00a0 He entitled it “Temple”, though I’m pretty sure the photo was … <\/p>\n

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