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Collected Item: “Love in The Time of Corona: Pobel”

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Love in The Time of Corona: Pobel

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Webpage

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Our headline comes from adapting the title of a novel by the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, replacing the infectious Corona for the infectious Cholera. In his love-triangle story, he speaks of the lessons learned from a particular woman, but he may as well have been speaking about the now-global crisis we humans are facing:

“(she) stood him on his head, tossed him up and threw him down, made him as good as new, shattered all his virtuous theories, and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”

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art, love, visual art, Corona, Covid-19, pandemic street art, Pobel, artist, street art, Norway, ASU, HST580

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https://www.brooklynstreetart.com/2020/03/16/love-in-the-time-of-corona/

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Brooklyn Street Art, BSA, Artist Pobel

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2020-03-16
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