He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
—Chris Marker, excerpt from Sans Soleil.
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The distance between countries compensates somewhat for the excessive closeness of time. –Jean Racine, 1672.
For my sister, who is now in Uganda volunteering at an orphanage for three weeks.
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Paper and Plastic
A Manifesto for Casual Use
Carelessness with carefulness
Soft-build not athletic
Vintage and future
Casual and formal
Mountains not beaches
Volume after flatness
Grace Jones and Leigh Bowery
Ballets before musicals
Demy and Tati
Trousers or sweaters
Oxford Bags and Nantucket Reds
Sandals instead of shoes
Booking versus tooling
Imi Knoebel and Donald Judd
Paper and plastic
Repeat
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. –Cormac McCarthy.
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