“We have a rich literature. But sometimes it’s a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.” —Don DeLillo
(Source: data-face)
Happy Memorial Day.
The Pogues - The band played waltzing matilda (by majorsnag)
“I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest. Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground is, among other things, a protest against the limitations of nineteenth-century rationalism; Don Quixote, Man’s Fate, Oedipus Rex, The Trial—all these embody protest, even against the limitation of human life itself. If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?”
—Ralph Ellison
and so it goes
and went. all that is left is what will be.
they will slice my arm open tomorrow morning and insert mechanical elements of our disembodied age around my wrist.
all because my body was too resistant to the forces around it.
from there another story will begin.
Happy Birthday Moz!
This hurts my brain a little bit. Happy birthday, Moz.
5.20.12 Lunar Eclipse. 23rd and Mission
Mexico 2012
“…there was was almost no smell from the corpse.”
The Brothers Karamazov
F. Dostoevsky
Trans. R. Pevear & L Volokhonsky
