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theoretically life is beautiful, theoretically life is glorious, and I don’t want to get out -Heinrich Boll, The Train was on Time
-David Sylvian, Orpheus
The apparently unimpaired ability … of everyday language to go on functioning as usual raises doubts of the authenticity of the experiences they record. [my ellipses] – W. G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction
…the longer i think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead, that only occasionally, in certain lights and atmospheric conditions, do we appear in their field of vision. [my ellipses] – W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz more on the dead
“The peal of bells, Monsieur, …that is the real music of the church!” [my ellipses] -J-K Huysmans, La-Bas
Russell Hoban, through Fremder, leads me back to Lee Smolin, and further to Lawrence Durrell: Being is not a steady state but an occulting one: we are all of us a succession of stillnesses blurring into motion on the wheel of action… The flickering of a film interrupts the intolerable contiuity of apparent world; subliminally [...]
“We see too many movies…They kill the imagination. You’ve heard of blind storytellers. It’s in darkness that myths are born. The cinema can’t do that. Did I tell you about the girl I took to lunch?…in a sense it’s that way with her. She can never dance. That’s why the real grace, the real music [...]
And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity–through him all things fall. -Friedrich Niezche, Also sprach Zarathustra
c.1990: To date no Vietnam movie has been shot on the original battlegrounds, but I’m confident it will happen, and might even get out of control. -J.G.Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition (revised, expanded, annotated, 1990) 2002: http://www.northernartsentertainment.com/film_detail.html?ID=3&poster=1 2004:
