"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 and an untraumatized man
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"Well, he's not dead," said S, when I asked what happened to Charlie Kirk.
"You're not so* foolish* as to believe that kid did it, are you?" he
demanded...
18 hours ago