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Inquiry into the potentate’s cloak

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 dig

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March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 dig

“Certain acts dazzle us and light up […]. And to analyze it, that is, to pursue it in a time with the sight and imagination, is to view it in its decline, for after the thrilling moment in which it reveals itself it diminishes with intensity.”
Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose (1946)

Quote via Olga Viso’s Jim Hodges and the Eros of the Everyday.

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March 21, 2020March 21, 2020 dig

Met by luck, with like destinations, 
We startled again at what ended in pique. 
Strollers out, seeing us, had no notion;

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March 19, 2020November 4, 2020 dig

If the spider is an ode to mother, the spun web must be to a “deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and [..] useful” place.