Revellers participate in the colourful flour war, celebrating #Ash Monday, a traditional festivity marking the end of the #carnival season and the start of Lent.
This one's called "Digital Relationships; or, How I Met My Wife and Why I Might Not Try That Again". It's a bit of a ramble.
I know better than to echo the received wisdom of my youth and insist that online acquaintances aren’t real. It’s not that digital relationships aren’t real. If anything, they can be hyperreal. The right words on a page or a screen can pierce your defenses and make you feel in a way you might not let let yourself if those words were spoken in person. The right words from the wrong person can shatter you, especially if they come at the wrong time.
A carnival reveller swings around a long wooden stick and performs a vault, the so-called "Fools Jump", during the traditional folklore procession "Narrensprung" dating back to the 14th century as part of the Swabian-Alemannic Rose Monday celebrations in the Black Forest town of Rottweil, in south-western Germany. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
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“I had arrived at the season of general relaxation, on the eve of the Carnival, which is celebrated with much gaiety in all Catholic countries. Masks, dominoes, harlequins, punchinelloes, and a variety of grotesque disguises, on horseback, in carts, gigs, and on foot paraded the streets with guitars, violins, and other instruments; and in the evening the houses were opened to receive masks, and balls were given in every direction.”
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Revellers in traditional costumes inspired by those worn by the characters in the Venetian Commedia dell’ Arte mark the opening of the #carnival season.