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artspeak / a litany of literary & filmic fragments / illustrates

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Sleepless, climbing vertebrae—spinal breath as flashlight in the Yesodic swamplands—“it’s as hot as hell in here”

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E̶r̶a̶s̶e̶d̶

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The central joke in Kafka’s work is that “[t]he horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”
—David Foster Wallace

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'Home' as the affliction of (primal) memory...
"Oblivion is the container from which the inexhaustible intermediate world in Kafka’s stories presses toward the light." –Walter Benjamin

https://t.co/1CwsCoq7YH

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Fourth Drawer Down, and Sulk. RIP Alan Rankine.

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Taps on throat chakra
#LesleyDill

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Agnes Varda / Ulysse

[Matt Melia @DocMelia]

Something I wrote for @SHUfear2000 a couple of years back on The Fall. Hoping to rework it and develop it in the light of @TheFallinFives excellent book 'You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record' #TheFall #TheMightyFall

https://t.co/91L8hNoaED

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The pain of the closed circle
https://t.co/Awa1FbVhXJ

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Yes, VU had some great songs, but then there was the wall of sound...
#AndyWarhol
https://t.co/AIQYyA2Xpd

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'Her eyes, made of the void, are deep and black'
–Baudelaire

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"People only need me when they're down and gone to seed [...]
It's appreciation half won.
And they hate their allegiance to hip preacher one."
–Hip Priest
#FallFriday #TheFall

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Sufferin', away ay. Sees life thru cracked chip–
Chetwynd!
"What else you get for Christmas, boy?"

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"Inadequate writers, methadone stubbies
You got energy vampires...
A mess of our age
A mess of my taste
A mess of our nervous systems"

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"...which is made of the reverse of sound, and before her spread forth wondrous falls, dreamless sleep, the fading away which buries the dead in a life of dream... "
–Thomas The Obscure, M. Blanchot

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"She passed through strange dead cities where, rather than petrified shapes, mummified circumstances, she found a necropolis of movements, silences, voids; she hurled herself against the extraordinary sonority of nothingness..."

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Proust Vs the Bhagavad Gita… Sounds like a plan.

[Harold Bloom Quotes @hbloomquotes]

I read Proust and turn to the Bhagavad Gita, which offers me three states of being: dark inertia, passion, lucidity. What Proust does is to lead me from dark inertia through passion to his lucidity, which I can only barely share.

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

Any chance one can find online somewhere Andrew Repasky McElhinney’s essay: On Staging The Malady of Death, from December 1999?

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

DAVID LYNCH giving his unique take on watching movies from a phone.

[Frieze @friezeofficial]

After a year of volatility in the crypto markets, Skyers considers the community-building potential for artists working on the blockchain
https://t.co/L9eupS6ZzN

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Making a utility of space by mistaking it for time