date 08/08/08

he sits at an outdoor cafe in the ghetto section of the city , looking up from the book he sees in the distance the castle prague and he dreams....

l'oeil comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini — redon

“his( magritte's ) first memory was the sight of men in helmets ; soldiers who had arrived to take away the enormous gas-bag of an observation balloon that had come to grief on the roof of his parents' house ” . - the history of surrealist painting by marcel jean

alchemy 1; a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold ; the discovery of a universal cure for disease,and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life 2; a power or process of transforming something common into something special 3; an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting . — webster's dictionary