"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.
A gray day in the cemetery
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Uncle J has lost his bluster. Lilith and I stopped to say hello, get our
trilled "Lilith Walks!" out of him, a handshake, a pet, something. Perhaps
I shou...
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