c/showerthoughts · by Klear@lemmy.world · 2y

I just realised that this is not a painting by René Magritte

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14 Comments

nycki@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's a digital image of a painting!

(Six, if you fold the pages back.)

A_A@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

... or a web link to the digital image ... but, a link is a pipe, so ... Ceci est une pipe !

gregorum@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 2y

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been lying!

— René Magritte

Norgur@fedia.io · 19 pts · 2y (2 replies)

This one took me a minute. But yes, it's not. Don't linger on that thought too long, though. The words that you read right now... are those my words?

Klear@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Am I the one writing this comment or the one reading it?

rtxn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

If you immediately know that the caldlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.

vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 15 pts · 2y (6 replies)

I love the (currently one) down vote on your post. Clearly not a connoisseur of René's work.

Your shower thought on the other hand is on point!

Nicely done.

sxan@midwest.social · 13 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Agreed. OP did well.

And it's an opportunity for me to re-post this seminal picture (or, one instance of it):

Image by Wendy D. Stolyarov

Klear@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Also an excuse to post my favourite Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic.

sxan@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y

😆 that's a good one! I haven't seen it before, and I thought I'd gone through all of them (to date)! Cheers!

xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh8z9fFJgVA

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sxan@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y

I have never seen that! I wish I could upvote you twice, you wonderful person.

Resol@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

It really isn't, because this is what I see:

If you use Jerboa, don't be fooled, the image I uploaded isn't actually broken. This is just what broken images look like.