"I’ve tried to come up with hypotheses for what happened. Maybe the staff just ran out of food that night. Maybe they confused our table with that of their ex-lover’s. Maybe they were drunk. But we got twelve kinds of foam..."
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This is a fascinating description of what real craft looks like and what things cost when you don’t rely on severely underpaid factory labor and cheap materials—which is why people expect to pay $20 for a bra.
Happy birthday to the great Krzysztof Kieślowski, who translated the mysteries of everyday life into incandescent, richly cinematic reveries with a mix of rigorous philosophical inquiry and operatic emotion. https://t.co/lDkSjFbmws
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible. - J.M. Coetzee