Go and fetch the sea…
—Anselm Kiefer, Over Your City Grass Will Grow
Every few years New York (and then the rest of the country) goes into a tortured soul-search and decides that we are all too ironic….
—Wendy Lesser
Science experiments, one might say, are elaborate constraints for augmenting human perception. “What will allow us to see more than we see?” What we have trouble seeing is how problematic this is when what is to be studied involves the intelligibility of perception itself. We often blind ourselves in order to “see.
—Chris Moffett
Maybe, if you want to brag how thin your device is, this is not the format?
A wise man, perched in the window, playing spoons.
If God is dead everything is permitted; this is a frightening thought partly because when God was alive everything seems to have been permitted.
—Adam Phillips, On Balance
Sounds of a metal grinder emanating from a tattoo parlor.
Our fantasies, in other words, may reveal that we are not excessively sexual, but excessively frightened of other people. That our fantasies at once formulate our desires—often in disguised form—and render them reassuringly impossible to realize.
—Adam Phillips, On Balance
