outside light (Page 171)

outside light

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from The Third Reich: the best sentence and another… do you like sentences?

They had learned to swim in the river and they believed that anyone who learned to swim in rivers could never drown in the sea. In rivers, he said, you have to swim as hard as you can and keep your mouth closed, especially if the river is radioactive. – Roberto

early Turkish hand grenade and other snaps

, 2 things

link 1: facebook addiction here link 2: David Byrne & St. Vincent here

Not this time II

Not this time I

The weightless singularity does not presuppose any sense, nor does it discover any sense through its experience in the world.Sense unfolds as creation, as a connecting desire, as the delirium that illuminates the event.For the members of the virtual class, who produce value by investing their cognitive labour,

false effort

So much of the performance of conventional NZ masculinity – what it means to be a man – can be summed up as false effort. The voice lowers, even to shuddering in its lowest registers. Speech is halting. It is a machine that stalls, turns over, starts up again with a cough,

from island to volcano

unyielding insularity takes itself tothe arena of its own closure, the quasi-incantatory expending of the ‘I’ towards thecrossroads of its own necessary undoing, an over-exhaustion of the Self to the point of itsirrelevance, its self-excising, its reflexive desolation. Moreover, annihilation would by rightrepresent the most volatile engagement