Sunday, November 05, 2006
Quotes
Benjamin:
"What exists he reduces to rubble, not for the rubble, but for the way leading through it."
"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."
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Hamlet: "Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought."
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Barthes:
on symbolism.
"As soon as it meant something it was less dangerous."
"The tourist belongs to a subhumanity by nature deprived of judgement and who ridiculously exceeds his condition when he claims to have any."
"Nomination is the first procedure of distraction."
--
"I revolt, therefore we are" -- Camus
[]
The list goes on and on: if this society has a surplus of anything, it is banalities to rearrange.
"What exists he reduces to rubble, not for the rubble, but for the way leading through it."
"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."
--
Hamlet: "Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought."
--
Barthes:
on symbolism.
"As soon as it meant something it was less dangerous."
"The tourist belongs to a subhumanity by nature deprived of judgement and who ridiculously exceeds his condition when he claims to have any."
"Nomination is the first procedure of distraction."
--
"I revolt, therefore we are" -- Camus
[]
The list goes on and on: if this society has a surplus of anything, it is banalities to rearrange.