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Monothematic

30 Monday Nov 2020

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Chassol - Russian Kidz

Meantime, everything should have changed according to Providence. Last voice tests, a series of vibrations that shape reality and the words that immediately derail.

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A mixed-blood

24 Tuesday Nov 2020

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Elsa Morante, Klaus Schulze, L'Isola di Arturo

Those like you, who have two different bloods in their veins, never find rest or contentment; and while they are there, they would like to be here, and as soon as they get back here, they immediately want to run away. You will go from place to place, as if you were escaping from prison, or running in search of someone; but in reality you will only pursue the different fates that mix in your blood, because your blood is like a double animal, it is like a griffin horse, like a mermaid. And you can also find some company, among so many people in the world; however, very often, you will be alone. A mixed-blood rarely finds himself happy in company: there is always something that shadows him, but in reality he shadows his own self, like the thief and the treasure, who shade one another. (“Arturo’s Island”) Elsa Morante.

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100km with REIGN SX 29 HANDS Giant

21 Saturday Nov 2020

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HANDS Giant, José Bergamin., REIGN SX 29

We play at getting lost as children. We play at getting lost for life. Man retains, in his deepest being, this pure anxiety of eternal bewilderment. Man plays because by playing he loses; or he may lose something, and he may lose something of himself by playing. Man plays because he loses; otherwise he would not play. When he wants to win it is to lose again: to lose even more, and always. Man tries to get lost, in the game as in everything. And he doesn’t always succeed. José Bergamin.

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Too Big for Trial

19 Thursday Nov 2020

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Edward M. Bernstein, Elizabeth Warren, George Bolton, Louis Rasminsky, The Bretton Woods

“I didn’t fight anyone because nobody
was worthy of my struggle.
I loved nature and, with nature, art:
warm both hands to the fire of life;
It fades, and I’m ready to go.” Walter Savage Landor

“If people go to jail for robbing the bank, the bank should go to jail for robbing the people”.

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No further

18 Wednesday Nov 2020

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archives, horizon, Max Richter

The horizon will be left in the air for centuries, the path will be covered, nights and days punctuated by shadows, time suspended with no other place than the screen. One last space on earth to explore, undefeated, unconquered. We will camp in ruined museums. In the sky, the distance leading to the archives is reduced. All images being stored permanently, the volume of the archives will be such that all things that are born will be devoured.

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17 Tuesday Nov 2020

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Henry David Thoreau, November

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…” Henry David Thoreau,

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Secret heliotropism

15 Sunday Nov 2020

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Giacometti, heliotropism, Kardec’s law, sowing


 

As the flowers turn their heads towards the sun,

Thus, by the force of a secret heliotropism

Everything tend to turn towards

The sun of history which is about to be born.

The earth is not interested in anything

That is not seed.

The tree structure

Is the condition of man

To grasp their spirit through the body

Rake in hands

So that something emerges from the massive substance

Of this pure moment: sowing.

I want to be like one of Giacometti sculpture

To have their plastic power

That can heal, assimilate, repair and reconstruct the broken forms.

Sometimes

I wonder if the forest I put between me and people

Get me closer or Way off my privacy

Here we can hear rare birds singing

They make me think that I live from now on so soundless

So disappeared

So buried

I make silence my mythology

I aggregate, I record among the compilation of my life the significant segments.

To discuss you have to go down into a swamp

Words spent in vain return immediately

Like a falling tide of fetid mud

To the heart of the man who spoke them.

I never want to get involved in any ideology

Keep my hands always completely free

Not to enter any bark, not to touch anything directly.

Some may come with mute feet

They enter with no straight line, no injury but I will not touch them.

I have in me this aggressive spring

Glenn Gould spring

To whom one would have broken eight fingers out of ten

My sincerity is to be born, to die, to reborn again and again, progress constantly

Like Kardec’s law from Catharsis.

Nothing can be done against me

With or without merit

I am too established in the spiritual life

For any illusion to have power over my soul.

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Your only rights

09 Monday Nov 2020

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mr Peanut

Try to understand what they want? What do they want? …They don’t know at all! The radicals? The monarchy? The return to “the way it was”? Socialism? Fourierism?Electoral civil war? Alexandre Dumas as dictator?The Mascuraud committee?Léon Blum? Reynaud? The Jesuits? The proportional electoral system? The lotteries? The Great Moghul? What do they want? They have no idea …They have mucked up, rotted, puked up everything through and through, everything that they touch will be the same, vomit, excrement, in two days. They want to remain old horses, unkempt, paddlers, drunkards, that’s all. They don’t have any other plan. They want to make claims everywhere,totally and on everything, and then that’s more than one can bear. A country is destroyed with “rights”, with supreme rights, with rights to nothing, with rights to everything, with rights of the jealous, with rights of famine, of storms. Between us!

Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s A Fine Mess – Les Beaux Draps

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The art of deformed men

03 Tuesday Nov 2020

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David Altmejd, Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz

 

“The invasion of science promises a very bright future for art. In it we will see our only friend and defender. It will end up being our only ID card.
Indeed! Imagine: when waking up one morning you will notice that by certain bio-physiological processes a second head has pushed behind you during the night, when frightened by this vision, you will lose your mind and you will no longer know which of these two heads is the real head, what can you do other than shout your horror, your revolt, your refusal, your despair… to cry out that you do not agree! This cry will find its poet … and testify that you have remained who you were yesterday.
As for me, I await the world of tomorrow, the scientific world, the confirmation of what Ferdydurke proclaims, on the distance from the form, on the non-identification with the form. The art of tomorrow will rise under this sign: the art of deformed men. They will consciously create a form for themselves (not even on the physical plane). But they won’t identify with it.”

Witold Gombrowicz

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Active passion

28 Wednesday Oct 2020

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Active passion, Childhood, Spinoza Enfance, Thomas Bernhard

” L’enfance court toujours à vos côtés, comme un petit chien qui, autrefois, a été un gai compagnon et qu’on doit, maintenant, soigner et panser, à qui on prodigue mille médicaments pour qu’il ne vous meure pas entre les doigts. L’enfance longe les fleuves et elle descend les cols; pour peu qu’on l’aide un peu, elle échafaude les mensonges les plus extravagants et les plus tortueux. Elle ne protège pas contre la douleur, ni contre l’indignation. Des pensées noires vous traversent comme des chats sournois. “
Thomas Bernhard

“Childhood is still running along beside us like a little dog who used to be a merry companion, but who now requires our care and splints, and myriad medicines, to prevent him from promptly passing on.”

Get ready for Halloween

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