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Wonderwater—Roni Horn/John Waters
[All red text, Roni Horn. All green text, John Waters' annotations. Block quotes clearly labeled. Video and music found by me, inspired by John Waters.] Anatomy and Geography English opera … Continue reading
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-25
Every sound means the house is falling apart. #uselessparanoia # Beautifully sunny new house, scritchy cats, and a wonderful woman. # Shelving books is therapeutic until you run out of shelf. # Scrambled eggs, fried ham, buttered toast, mom’s coffee … Continue reading
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how do we construct theory?
[Constructed by intersecting bits of text from Wonderwater—Roni Horn/Anne Carson and bits of text from my response/s to the first bits of text.] Uncertainty is what makes them interesting. My blood looks uncertain. What runs at the bottom of everything … Continue reading
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Wonderwater—Roni Horn/Hélène Cixous
Every contemplated face becomes landscape —Hélène Cixous, Wonderwater, written in 2003 But now an almost insoluble problem confronted him, and it was no use trying … Continue reading
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-18
Asking myself what part of me is gone in my desiring. # Moved two cars full of boxes this morning. Now at school till 10 p.m. # Could the wirelessness here be any more cumbersome? # The X is filling … Continue reading
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Wonderwater—Roni Horn/Anne Carson
Das Angenehme dieser Welt Das Angenehme dieser Welt hab’ ich genossen, Die Jugendstunden sind, wie lang! wie lang! verflossen, April und Mai und Julius sind ferne, Ich bin nichts mehr, ich lebe nicht mehr gerne! … Continue reading
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-11
Lucille’s shrimp and grits + 2 café au lait = nap? # It’s only a tragedy if we first have sympathy for the bufoon Charles Bovary? # The mouth is like a lubricated hand. # Being close-minded about meditation sort … Continue reading
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the lonely tax collector
“‘When we investigated the sites manually it worked better,’ he added.”* *The final sentence in a BBC article about the Swedish government’s efforts to collect taxes from web-cam strippers.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05
What’s the first half of the word “painting”? Pain. # “IMMEDIATELY create a strong suction to draw the plastic material up into the roof of the mouth and onto the sides of the teeth.” # Will the new room work? … Continue reading
Wonderwater—Roni Horn/Louise Bourgeois
“as in the rough stream of a glacier the ice holds a splinter of bone, a blue petal, some oak trees, and rolls them on.” —Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 1. Song Sung Glue … Continue reading
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