cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/532523
> *Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight*
> The quote from Doctor Faustus which acts as the epitaph on it's author's grave.
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> Above that quote is "At this spot lie the mortal remains of Christopher Marlowe who met his untimely deaht in Deptford on May 30 1953."
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> Christopher Marlowe, by some accounts a spy, by others the "real" Shakespeare died in Deptford, London when he was stabbed in the eye with a knife in a pub on 30 May 1593.
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> Taken with in the afternoon on 30th May 2023 with a Lomography Simple Reloadable camera (f/11 + flash, 31mm, 1/120s) on Kodak Gold 200 ISO film developed at a +1 push. The flash caught the plaque and roses nicely, you can see just above that the local university students often leave pens resting by the grave in tribute to the author.
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> Taken by Ali Raheem (@ali on lemmy.sdf.org, social.sdf.org and available at ali@sdf.org).