hm..the french áre a poetic people...

from : The Role of Motivation ("iconymy") in Naming : Six Responses to a List of Questions,
Mario Alinei, 
in 
Nature Knowledge Ethnoscience,Cognition,and Utility (great book!) :

                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                shadownews in :                         

                                                              kelek & guffanews in :

some archeological books got quite romantic pictures...

( a woman 22-24 and a man 18-20 years old, died like this in a hidden place in the burnt down citadel of Hasanlu, Iran, 2800 years ago....)

(from : The Hasanlu Lovers, Oscar White Muscarella

            in : AMILLA The Quest for Excellence, ed. B. Koehl, 2013)

isn't it nice that once upon a time somebody wrote a book about galopping?

(a place covered with raspberries)

from : DICTIONARUL ELEMENTELOR ROMÂNESTI DIN DOCUMENTELE

           SLAVO-ROMÂNE 1374-1600, Bucuresti 1981





("in the snowwhite saltdesert")

(" the black desert")

from : ON ANCIENT CENTRAL ASIAN TRACKS, Aurel Stein, 1932