Hyla Levy
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If white and black blend, soften, and unite
A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain;
’Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain
It was our boy Alexander Pope — who, in the same poem, told us the proper study of mankind is man — that told us not to put too much faith in black and white. Pope never saw a photograph, but I suspect he’d warn us against trusting them as well. And reflections? We don’t need an 18th century poet to caution us against trusting reflections; that’s a lesson we’ve all learned from our mirror.
And yet —
— is this not a proper study of humankind? Ask your own heart.
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