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what do you know

Posted in snail on October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
Charles H. Spurgeon

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symbols… old post

Posted in snail on October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Snail – a symbol of a house. Symbol of the persistence, and persistence, it’s helping to finish your work successful.« When you are on a dangerous way, move ahead slowly but wright ». The snail became a symbol of cyclic processes, for example, revival and revival, and in painting of icons aztecs – fertility. It [...]

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a house is but a home… another old one

Posted in snail on October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

William Cowper, “Snail” (1731)

To grass, or leaf, or fruit, or wall, the snail sticks close, nor fears to fall, as if he grew there, house and all together.
Within that house secure he hides, when danger imminent betides of storm, or other harm besides of weather.
Give but his horns the slightest touch, his self-collecting power is [...]

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hope this works

Posted in snail on October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

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jimmy the snail

Posted in snail on October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Jimmy the snail was a very slow walker,
A very slow eater, a very slow talker.
It took him ten minutes to climb up a flower,
And eating a leaf, that took him an hour!
It really was lucky his house was his shell
Or going to bed would take hours as well.
When others said: “Jimmy, why are you so [...]

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leave it to zappa

Posted in snail on October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

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this link is cute but broken cut and paste

Posted in snail on October 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/flash/fpoem2.shtml

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snail italian style

Posted in snail on October 25, 2006 | 1 Comment »

 
Taken in Siena, Toscana (See more photos here)
43°18′ 45″ N, 11°19′ 32″ E43.312611.3256
Wooden Snail in Siena 2006 This big wooden snail had been made in September as urban decoration during the celebration of the Palio victory of 16th Aug. 1999 by the Contrada della Chiocciola. The author was Stefano Tozzi. Here, it was on the [...]

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poetry in slow motion

Posted in snail on October 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Elizabeth Bishop – Giant Snail
The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all

night. I have come out to take a walk and feed. My body-foot,

that is–is wet and cold and covered with sharp gravel. It is

white, the size of a dinner plate. I have set myself a goal, a

certain rock, but [...]

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a snail’s fairyland

Posted in snail on October 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

a snail’s fairyland, originally uploaded by Rosina.
wonderful just wonderful

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