"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.
Lilith talks death and shunning with Uncle John
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Lilith and I walked to the entrance to the Temple this morning to see Uncle
John. Uncle John is younger than I am, but after he started calling me
aunty a...
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