"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 (an ongoing sequence)
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*from *Startles
The curb says, do not park here. It says, storm drain below, says palm tree
above, says graveyard, says take my picture. And I do: narro...
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