this disaster… will rip the heart out of Christchurch, once again, and for a long time to come
– from here
Simon Taylor
that aftershock made me lose my place in your question
– from here
I was careful but I hurt you
Teresa Brennan and the transmission of affect
here time goes in reverse – a catachrony
panic in the streets
I saw something strange in the streets of the city today. Another city.
You know how they talk about normality, how its intrinsic oddity can
barely
be
contained
?
Today, I was amazed how actively citizens were unseeing the city,
as in China Miéville’s
City and the City
.
The city’
the prose of suicide following the injunction to rend the curtain which every novel worthy of the name must do, destroy, experiment, say NO! to current interpretations, to the given & pre-interpreted, the world of logic, of the rational, & both the common
Let us review the situation: Anna has gone to the station to find Vronsky, not to kill herself; once she is on the platform, she is
suddenly
surprised by a memory and seduced by the
unexpected
chance to give her love story a finished, beautiful shape; to tie its beginning