I just realised that this is not a painting by René Magritte

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It's a digital image of a painting!

(Six, if you fold the pages back.)

... or a web link to the digital image ... but, a link is a pipe, so ... Ceci est une pipe !

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been lying!

— René Magritte

This one took me a minute. But yes, it's not. Don't linger on that thought too long, though. The words that you read right now... are those my words?

Am I the one writing this comment or the one reading it?

If you immediately know that the caldlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.

It really isn't, because this is what I see:

If you use Jerboa, don't be fooled, the image I uploaded isn't actually broken. This is just what broken images look like.

I love the (currently one) down vote on your post. Clearly not a connoisseur of René's work.

Your shower thought on the other hand is on point!

Nicely done.

Agreed. OP did well.

And it's an opportunity for me to re-post this seminal picture (or, one instance of it):

Image by Wendy D. Stolyarov