"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.
On "termination"
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My cemetery buddy, Scott (he of all conspiracy theories, meditations on
mortality, lover of trees, who cared about walkers like me, and asked after
us whe...
3 days ago
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