Sunday March 21, 2004

Quid Pro Quack

(Headline of today’s
Maureen Dowd column)

Quiddity:

The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?

-Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

The above rather cryptic sequence of pictures may be regarded as a memorial to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, who died at about the time I found the central picture, “Royal Palm Student.”  For further details, click on the individual pictures, each of which is taken from a past log24 entry.  Also of some relevance: the palm at the end of A Mass for Lucero and the Stevens poem on The Palm at the End of the Mind.