"I am (like) one who, returning from a very long journey (outside everything, the earth, the world, men and their languages), tries to keep after the event a logbook, with the forgotten, fragmentary, rudimentary instruments of a prehistoric language and literature. Tries to understand what has happened, and to explain it with pebbles, pieces of wood, the gestures of someone deaf and dumb before there was anyone to teach the deaf and dumb, the fumblings of a blind man before Braille ... And they're going to have to piece things together with that. If they knew, they'd be afraid and they wouldn't even try." — Jacques Derrida
"Every line we succeed in publishing today — no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it — is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness." — Walter Benjamin
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." — Oscar Wilde
conformist vision
will infallibly produce
derivative works
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Vignette, Photography and Computer-Mediated Narrative
by Mark Phillips:
- Art of vignette & x-pari-mental narrative, posted to a daily workbook.
- Collections of the above bits by theme or technique, widely published.
- Abstract and travel photography emphasizing color and texture.
- A major work of computer-mediated narrative, TriadCity, cited by The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism as its culminating example of Postmodernist literature.
The Gray Man Dances (1949).