"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.
Design of darkness (to appall)
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"You're here on a Monday," I said to Uncle J, who was alone at the guard
shack. S was not there, hadn't been for days. J was there because someone
had ...
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