To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water’s edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt.
― Georges Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties; A Man Asleep

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. The alley behind my building is a treasure trove of of interesting images, if you like drains and gutters… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this drain on a sunrise walk around my neighborhood. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

You can’t cut down someone who’s already in the gutter.
― Nora Sakavic, The Raven King

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this ditch on a sunrise walk around my neighborhood. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

‘That girl,’ tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, ‘swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.’
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. The alley behind my building is a treasure trove of interesting images, including this oil-slick rainbow. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. At a rest area on a trip to visit my parents, I found this filmy puddle and couldn’t help taking a quick pic… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you’re along for the ride.
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this drain on a sunrise walk around my neighborhood. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. The alley behind my building is a treasure trove of of interesting images, if you like drains and gutters… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.