‘[Piranha 3D] is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3D. …[I]t just cheapens the medium …’
Purveyor of Blue Pocahontas in the Skyrealms of Jorune is right. Won’t somebody please think of the dignity of highly profitable commodities?
Nothing so sullies haute kitsch as low camp.
The Adventures of Objects
Vampire
‘Dream. A labyrinth of dark corridors spiralling downwards. Intestinal landscape. Impression that I’m going to go on walking like this for eternity. How to get out? We carry on downward (I say we because there’s an absolute crowd thronging in these corridors, but, in reality, all the time it’s me). Luxuriously comfortable cinemas as well as immense urinal-cathedrals, feebly illuminated by neon open off these sinuosities. The ground underfoot gives the impression of walking on a raft of dropsical bellies. A whiff of sea-breeze reaches me at the precise moment I realise that I am in a penal colony, condemned to forced labour for life.’
Julien Torma
‘The marvellous is not rare, incredulity is stronger than miracles. Miracles have difficulty in recruiting witnesses [.]’
Jacque Rigault, Lord Patchogue
‘What is a forest? A supernatural insect. A drawing board. What do forests do? They never retire early. They await the woodcutter.’
- Max Ernst
‘Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.’
Velimir Khlebnikov, Zangezi
‘Where there is no social program, there’s always a violence program.’
Alexander Cockburn
Festival
Before the rooster crows twice
A few preliminary components for the construction of an alternative textual history.
- J.H. Prynne, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems
- J.G. Ballard, The Wind from Nowhere
- Jonathan Littell, Bad Voltage
Books disavowed, denied, repudiated & spurned by their authors as organising nodes of literature.
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