big white pants
you will never catch a flux all on its own – Gilles Deleuze & Claire Parnet, Dialogues II, p. 91 the great ruptures, the great oppositions, are always negotiable; but not the little crack – Ibid., p. 99
CUT MY TAIL
I believe that even the greatest works of literature have a little tail of human frailty which, if one is on the lookout for it, begins to wag slightly and disturbs the sublime, godlike quality of the whole…
– Franz Kafka in a letter to Felice Bauer, quoted by Nicholas Murray
study of a passion
Study of a passion would necessitate a study of masochism.
…the masochist assemblage: the organisation of humiliations and suffering in it appear less as a means of exorcising anguish and so attaining a supposedly forbidden pleasure, than as a procedure, a particularly convoluted one, to constitute a body without organs
no idea
– Francis Bacon, Study from the Human Body, 1949.
What is it that the K. character says about curtains in RJF project? It’s about the children, replacements for him, miniatures, his mother has inside her:
I’m sure they would imagine themselves exactly as I am… day in, day out,
to what do I owe the pleasure?
When we hear of a thing as stupid as the supposed death drive, it is like seeing a shadow theatre, Eros and Thanatos. We have to ask: could there be an assemblage so warped, so hideous, that the utterance ‘Long live death’ would be an actual part of it and
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Imagine the frame physically squashed and collapsed into a line. It’s barely visible, like the leading edge of a mirror, except that at its end only a point is visible.
The frame was never a limit or constraint. It was, in a way, an incitement. It asked: What do
the gifted professor walks up and down the room, like a goldfish in its bowl, trying to find the word and, unable to find it, he says, It’s not good enough!
Do you not think people would rather choose the law than their own demons? that the choice would be a real one and that it would necessarily be followed by a period not of indecision but of circling the question, a period of inability to deal with having finally made