To be sure, Edna, their bigotry is as hypocritical as is their common sense of decency

Photo © Ольга Нуарэ / Olga Noiret 🍀 (@noiret.dolls)

Cupid Rearmed

As they say, Edna, time and patience turn the mulberry leaf into satin

Artwork © ⭐ Tatiana Marquez Atrio ⭐ (@tissucrochet)

Last Tango in Paris

Edible frogs with inflated vocal sacs mate in a pond in Rosny-Sous-Bois in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. Photo: Geyres Christophe/Abaca/Rex/Shutterstock.

In short, Edna, we could say: the tougher the life, the sweeter the cure

Artwork © CFManuel

Escape to Life

You know, Edna, the more one stared at it, the more the still-life faded into its own dark nothingness

Photo © blima12252012

Si duo vident idem, non est idem

Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Eve Babitz, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963. Photo: Julian Wasser.

The Cask of Amontillado

Walled off: 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) playing Mariya Olehivna Muzychuk in the fifth game of the Women’s World Chess Championship match at Lviv, Ukraine, March 8, 2016. Due to fears of cheating, games were played behind closed doors, under a still-life painting, and broadcast with a 30-minute delay. Photo: Misha Friedman/Avaunt magazine.

To be sure, Edna, sooner or later, new suitors will come to worship at your altar

Artwork © ☆BeansOnToast♡

Altars of the East

Valérie Belin, Bride/XXX Toys, (Brides series), 2012. Photo: Valérie Belin/Courtesy of Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris–Brussels.

You know, Edna, no one cares a damn about them, but because you care so much about it, then everyone on earth will go and take a look

Artwork © Stephen Smith

Pearl of Water Town

Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) gives her auspicious speech to all participants in the 55th Chinese Chess Championship which is being held from May 6-16, 2024, in her hometown of 兴化 (Xīnghuà), 江苏省 (Jiāngsū province), China. She offered a sincere prayer that her old birthplace, dubbed a “pearl of water town”, may still stand, and that it may continue to be China’s “capital of chess” still for long years to go on. Video: 兴化 (Xīnghuà) Media Centre.

Hi, Edna! May you always fly high and keep your head up in the clouds

Between Appear and Disappear

Inevitably, it may be that photos taken from the same place at different hours of the same day can show weather changes.

Yes, Edna, to quote Juvenal, “orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano”

Artwork © saucyspice

Now and Then

A thought for today, while wandering around Sesto Fiorentino, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy — to those who died for their country, cease fire now.

Garrison Girl

On May 11, Peking University hosted a joint symposium with teachers and students of 北京大学光华管理学院 (Guānghuá School of Management) and an elite delegation of 中国人民解放军北京卫戍区 (PLA Běijīng Garrison District) in order to awake and revive the spirit of May Fourth.

侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), a four-time Women’s World Chess Champion and a PKU Professor, is a muse who lives to tell her own story. Photos: 北京大学光华管理学院 (Guānghuá School of Management, Peking University).

You see, Edna, the law of retaliation is a dominant feature of their Western culture; and thus the more one speaks of peace, the more they get mad and pissed off

Artwork © alexaviciz

The auspicious Queen

Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) gives an auspicious speech to all participants in the 55th Chinese Chess Championship which is being held from May 6-16, 2024, in her hometown of 兴化 (Xīnghuà), 江苏省 (Jiāngsū province), China.

Nay, Edna, you don’t have to ask their permission to repay them — miserable warmongers on the payroll of war industries — with compassion, peace and love

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红线 (Red thread of fate)

Ducks walk across the red carpet, ahead of a meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Chinese President 习近平 (Xí Jìnpíng) as part of 习 (Xí)’s two-day state visit, in Belgrade, Serbia. Photo: Zorana Jevtić/Reuters.

Keep bad thoughts away, Edna. The seven year itch is nothing more than a superstitious myth — at most it can be likened to a flea in the ear in the middle of the night

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Song Association

The Last Weekend

On May 4–5, 2024, a delegation of 滨州市聚旗棋艺俱乐部 (Bīnzhōu Jùqí Chess Club) visited the Peking University History Museum and enjoyed a lecture and a master class given by four-time Women’s World Chess Champion and PKU Professor 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán). Video: 文如 (Wén Rú).