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Cemetery bat

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From a tomb in Fontainebleau cemetery.
Image size
478x500px 210.46 KB
Make
PENTAX Corporation
Model
PENTAX Optio S40
Shutter Speed
1/40 second
Aperture
F/2.6
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Jan 21, 2009, 7:02:33 AM
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Etheldrede's avatar
Oh ! This is my tattoo ! [link]

I could speak for hours about this symbol, it is so fascinating ! Bats were considered as night birds, failed birds, they are deeply connected to the baudelairian spleen :

"Quand la terre est changée en un cachot humide,
Où l'Espérance, comme une chauve-souris,
S'en va battant les murs de son aile timide
Et se cognant la tête à des plafonds pourris ;"

Baudelaire, Spleen LXXVIII

The hourglass in itself is obviously a metaphor of Time and its merciless unwinding, it also represents Melancholia or can even be connected to the Greek god Chronos : the titan who eats his children - as Time devours us... [link]

Hope I helped giving a few enlightenment about this :D