"How this project [Arcades] was written: rung by rung, as chance offered a narrow foothold; and always like someone climbing dangerous heights, not looking around for a second, in order not to get dizzy (but also to save the full power of the panorama stretched before him for the very end)."
- Walter Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 5, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, passage trans. Richard Sieburth.
from Startles
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It must have been those dementia classes I took from my mother that made me
re-read *The Memory Police*, though there was little re- to it, as I can’t
r...
2 days ago
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