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‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit.
‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’
‘Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,’ he asked, ‘or bit by bit?’
‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
The Skin Horse
Americana
#LeicaT #Tucson #Arizona
Chicago September 2005 – Contax G1, Oldsmobile Cutlass
The American Way
I ran across this old beauty parked beside the ocean, California of course.
I was out for a drive, exploring some of Arizona, and was lucky enough to run across this little car show. Also, see: (Link)