human media: excerpts from Life During Wartime The pucker of an old bullet wound on her right shoulder. … She wasn’t attractive, but she was plain in the way history is plain, its contrivance lending the world a symmetry that implies hidden beauty; and it seemed to him that her impassivity was symptomatic of the quiet confidence
connecting point to point by minimum surface area, three bubbles joined, after Joseph Plateau: reality, justice & freedom – photo shot in Costa Rica by Skot. Gilles Deleuze’s sport of choice was surfing, wrote Slavoj Zizek, typically, ironically. Soap is a surfactant. Asked what he thought about terrorists, Kurt Vonnegut answered, They are very brave. see page RJF project & ff.
Kurt Vonnegut, 11/11/1922-11/4/2007 What part of America is dead? Only the part that makes no claim on heaven Is dead, And if part of you is dead, How do you go on Living? War is disease, Love is conducted Like warfare. Business extends war into It, Love. And Art has always been a
ulu A dream dreamt in a dreaming world is not really a dream, says classical Chinese wisdom, but a dream not dreamt is. – Anne Carson in "The Anthopology of Water" (Plainwater, Vintage, USA, 2000, p. 236) New Zealanders are dreaming … of arriving.