viewing Nicholas Murray’s Kafka
a salutary corrective to RO. – “The Love Bite,” pencil drawing by Laurie Lipton
Simon Taylor
alternative title to preceding post on Jasper Fforde’s First Among Sequels, alternative to a review, that is, of this, easily his best book so far
Bright ideas explode, unfortunately igniting, of damp squibs, some mediocre ones, like the need for illustrations, fizzling in the arena of relationships, and, when the too close walls come back into focus and the sitting-room (i.e., of the semi-detached) is restored, falling away, in the end, fading after a
entirely excellent, Deleuzian even, if not altogether satisfying, forget Danielevski after you’ve read House of Leaves & pick up a Jasper Fforde footnoterphone [op.cit., p.332, n.4], passing quickly over the cartoons
The Long View has been eroded. We can’t see beyond six months if that, and short-termism will spell our end. But the thing is, it needn’t be that way there’s a reason for it. The time engines don’t just need vast quantities of power – they need
2 K. statues and a shot of eggs
– photographs by James Van Dellen, www.futuregringo.com – Francis Bacon, c. 1952
if it’s moving at sufficient speed, a sheet of paper can cut down a mighty oak tree, which explanation, Marvel, I think it was, offered for the Flash’s ability to use his hands as blades to cut through solid objects (Paul Virilio would approve)
[How] even to touch the greatest task … if you cannot collect yourself in such a way that, when the decisive moment comes, you hold the totality of yourself collected in your hand like a stone to be thrown, a knife for the kill?
– Franz Kafka quoted by Nicholas Murray in
meanwhile, and conversely, to appropriate the actual theatre to a virtual industry is not the answer
Recovery [of the real] proceeds through the dissolution of the psychoanalytic theatre of interpretation (the theatre in which desire is staged or ‘represented’ … at a distance from itself) … Recovery [of the real] involves dismantling the theatrical representation of desire in terms of restricted family roles and metaphors and the restoration
Merry Christmas
– painting by Attila Richard Lukacs found at www.dianefarrisgallery.com see page “FOUND materials” opposite for the document the path with heart by Alejandro Iglesias Rossi, a Christmas present.