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<a href=”http://funeralhome.bandcamp.com/album/funeral-home-ep” _mce_href=”http://funeralhome.bandcamp.com/album/funeral-home-ep”>Funeral Home EP by Funeral Home</a>
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Passages from The Nerve Meter by Antonin Artaud
from The Nerve Meter by Antonin Artaud
An actor is seen as if through crystals. Inspiration in stages. One musn’t let in too much literature.
I have aspired no further than the clockwork of the soul, I have transcribed only the pain of an abortive adjustment.
I am a total abyss. Those who believed me capable of a whole pain, a beautiful pain, a dense and fleshy anguish, an anguish...
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The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters…
The Anatomy of Melancholy, part 2, sect. II, mem. IV
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings. From any of the hexagons one can see, interminably, the upper and lower floors....
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The Joy Eclectic
Everything is up.
Here
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PSALM by Urszula Koziol
liberated from me you shan’t free yourself of me
while you’re in me I’ll keep repeating you it is enough to notice it for it to take possession. And it pays by remaining in the inadvertent host complementary exchange: a tree within us and us within the tree entrusted to endure multiplied leaf by leaves and divided by the word and separated by the flesh we find ‘it’ in what eyes...
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The Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real...
1. The Object of Desire is the Universe, or the Totality of Being
Rather strangely, I describe what is hardest to comprehend, but at the same time it is the most familiar thing. Spectators of tragedies and readers of novels get the meaning of it without fully understanding it; and in their own way those who attend mass religiously do nothing but contemplate its essence. But if from the world of...
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Manifesto in Clear Language by Antonin Artaud
If I believe neither in Evil nor in Good, if I feel such a strong inclination to destroy, if there is nothing in the order of principles to which I can reasonably accede, the underlying reason is in my flesh.
I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my...
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