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| Ce n'est pas un coup de pistolet, c'est une image d'un pistolet. |
I don't recall how I stumbled over this picture, but something about it grabbed me. Maybe it's the elements that make up the style: the hand painted orange background, the detailed but somehow comic-strip-ish drawing of the gun itself, the French caption in (possibly handwritten) cursive. And then there's the caption itself, which threw me for a bit. What do you mean it's not a pistol? Are they making a distinction between an automatic and a revolver (this is a picture of a revolver)? Or maybe a pistolet is a little gun, and this gun is not a little gun, it is a big SERIOUS gun. Actually, the point is, it's not a gun at all, it's only a picture of a gun. Evidently some people have a hard time making that distinction.
Update October 2016 replaced missing picture.
Update October 2016 replaced missing picture.
2 comments:
Magritte was here. See also
http://home.egge.net/~savory//blog_jan_11.htm#20110119
Funny how the mind works, or in my case, doesn't. I saw that picture when you posted it, which was only six weeks ago, but I had completely forgotten about it. Sacre bleu!
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