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Monday, May 17, 2021

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This Douglas of Detroit photo of an unknown model looks as though it was made in an old quarry.

 

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  1. Ah, my favorite shadow! But look at those shoulders! And something about the light and contrast attracts me, but I can't say just what it is.

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    1. I think what catches the eye is how the shadows from his armpits to his nipples somehow make his shoulders look even more squared off than they might otherwise.

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  2. When I was staying at my parents' country house in Wiltshire, on hot Summer days the local boys would skinny dip in the nearby flooded quarry. The local cop who served several villages used to come round on his motorbike several times in an afternoon just to make sure we weren't drowning. I don't know now what I would have done had I seen anyone quite like this taking a plunge... or perhaps I do!

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    1. I'll never forget my first "hot Summer day" in Wiltshire. It was about 75F (24C), and I couldn't imagine how they considered that hot. That's not even warm where I come from.

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  3. Well, the climate explains the English national character - never so cold as to endanger life and never so hot as to excite the passions. Without the essential need to survive the elements, it demonstrates our historical social ease - with no one but ourselves - and our lack of understanding of the intensity of other cultures. Strawberries and cream in sunlit 70° and chestnuts roasting over an overheated fire. The weather may interrupt our way of life, but never the climate. By the way, the water in that quarry was unmercifully cold.

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    1. I didn't imagine the quarry water would be anything but cold, lol. I went to the Isles of Scilly for a week once in August, having heard that the water was warm. It wasn't.

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