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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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Like a weird flower

25 Sunday Oct 2020

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1957 Chevrolet, Christine and the Queens, CUBAN Hand Made, Rudolf Nureyev

“I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower”. Christine and the Queens

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We have to go

21 Wednesday Oct 2020

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Jack Kerouac

We have to go and not stop until we get there.Where are we going?I don’t know, but we have to go.( On the Road) Jack Kerouac

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Boire un peu d’eau.

20 Tuesday Oct 2020

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Thomas d'Ansembourg

La priorité de l’instant est de boire un peu d’eau.

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The only beauty possible

20 Tuesday Oct 2020

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Raymonde de Laroche

The most beautiful people we’ve known are those who have known defeat, suffering, effort, loss and found their way out of the dark. These people have an esteem, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, kindness and an interest of deep love. Beautiful people don’t just happen; they were formed.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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How I see green and red

18 Sunday Oct 2020

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Color blindness, Francis Bacon, Franck Maubert

“Perhaps I continue because my obsession eludes me. Creation is an absolute necessity that makes you forget everything else. I didn’t think I was going to support myself by painting, I just wanted to clarify things with myself. Creation is like love, nothing can be done about it. It is a necessity.”
Francis Bacon, Conversation with Franck Maubert

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Reflecting is listening stronger

16 Friday Oct 2020

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Ando Fuchs, August Strindberg

This is finally loneliness: wrapping yourself in the silk of your soul, getting chrysalis and waiting for metamorphosis, which you cannot miss. Meanwhile you live of your own experiences and telepathically you live other people’s life […].Finally you only own yourself. Other people’s thoughts don’t control mine anymore; opinions, other people’s tantrums don’t upset me anymore. Now the soul starts to mature in regained freedom and I feel an immense inner peace, a serene pleasure, a sense of certainty and responsibility. If I reflect on the social life that should be some kind of gym, I can’t now but judge it other than a school of vices. If you carry a sense of beauty, being forced to see ugliness is a real torture, which deceitfully drives you to consider yourself a martyr. Closing your eyes to injustice just because of it teaches you little by little to become a hypocrite. Getting used to constantly suppressing your opinions and always because of it, makes you vile. August Strindberg, ′′ Alone ′′

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From the bottom

15 Thursday Oct 2020

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Elvio Fachinelli

“I became quieter and more attentive; more receptive maybe. I no longer believe, if I have ever believed it, in assertions, affirmative or peremptory style, in setting and program speeches. What’s important comes from bottom, from silence, from a kind of passivity. Which doesn’t mean: slowly; no, actually sometimes it means: abruptly, suddenly, but always from the bottom, like a different voice and together always clear, clear (…) I’ve learned to live the discontinuous, not demanding security passages where there is no one or at least where I don’t know anyone. :Endure the anguish. Endure loneliness. (…) I am deviated by a more urgent, cooler interest. Even if afterwards, I can see that deep down I have moved on in the groove of a line present from long time ago.” Elvio Fachinelli

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