"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 I stop to talk to the mortician, Paul
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"I'll go get Pops for you," said the young man who'd just shown me a
photograph of his chihuahua terrier mix on his phone. I'd asked if Paul
were around...
13 hours ago
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