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The parasites are still here: notes on an exchange of letters, pt. 1
Here is a strange troubling and personal statement in which everything is revealed and nothing is said. I love actors like my father did. I just don’t believe they should be put in charge of theatres.
– from notebooks
To satisfy ignorance is to put off writing until tomorrow.
– Gilles
A Performance in Openness (In Three Parts) by Dudley Benson: A fifteen minute performance in response to Rita Angus: Life & Vision Sunday 1st November, 3 pm Art Lounge Corner Lorne & Khartoum Free admission, limited seating
Dudley Benson’s
A Performance in Openness
took place on Sunday 1st November at Art Lounge. The venue has been annexed by the New Art Gallery. It was previously the Paramount (1999 Metro Restaurant of the Year under Paul Jobin) and the room remains much the same: the bar’s
apropos of a study for a dressing …
– Anne Carson, by Terry Byrnes, from here And as per the title, Anne Carson under false sail can be read by clicking the photo of her.
fair dues: a study for a dressing
There comes a time when all that has come before seems like a false start. Where does it come from, the sense of a false start? Since we can not choose how our narratives begin, only how they carry on, how they deal with each problem as it comes until
the necessary admission to your own reactionary machinery: from Balthus’s memoir
– Henri Cartier-Bresson, Balthus and Setsuko
– Balthus (1908-2001),
The Mountain
, 1937
Literature is an objective, a projected result; it is life that is the unconscious, the agitated, the struggling, floundering cause.
The artist’s life is his work, and that is the place to find him.
– Henry James quoted
Spinoza and the theatre of repetition: excerpting Rebecca Goldstein’s Betraying Spinoza
Deleuze talks of how Nietzsche overturns Kant—formally, by producing a beyond of morality, a test of love over faith: “The eternal return says: whatever you will, will it in such a manner that you also will its eternal return.” [Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton, Continuum, London,