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to stretch to fold to twist – it

Deleuze holds that structural interpretation is both creative and apodictic. On the one hand, it is creative insofar as the interpretative work always depends upon a fundamental decision or risk surrounding what sorts of variations the structure of the text must undergo. Will I stretch it, fold it, or twist

Dan Eldon

“only THE dead have seen the end OF war” – Plato,* quoted by Dan Eldon, who he was here … *attribution unverified, likelier George Santayana (see here)

Preparations for Transport continues… (for preceding parts, see page under Not That Beautiful, opposite)

The next days followed quickly and without major variation, except they got shorter. Tolerances to this phase of the treatment apparently decreased over time, our days ending earlier and earlier. By three o’clock on the fourth day immobile figures on mats outnumbered those who were moving. There were squeaks

“terrorized in my bed with Artaud fast asleep” cf. I ache in the places where i used to play, of Leonard Cohen

and the late discovery of the Artaudian ghosting… (Leonard Cohen singing “Tower of Song” here.)

Tel Quel/Artaud: les risques enormes et les experiences aesthetiques limites + glossolalie politique; cf. my mother’s paranoia was politically inspired, Ghetto Life 101

it takes extremely fragile and extremely solid people to risk and even gain from the encounter with madness without succumbing or being taken by it to destruction and death (here’s the link for reference to Ghetto Life 101, the radio diary of LeAlan Jones, then thirteen, and Lloyd Newman,

JK in reluctant blue

the pitiless repetition of cruel and crude acts of representation to extract maximum virtual profit

However widespread and ubiquitous its effects, virtualization today is almost always and everywhere construed and undertaken from the perspective of actuality. … In the Theatre of Cruelty, by contrast, action can never be measured, either positively or negatively, in terms of actuality. Virtualization, as a defining characteristic of the plague, no