Tag Archives: Paul Verlaine

seine: inseinity

What was it while gazing at the Seine that Verlaine came upon his definition of water,”that impure liquid, a drop of which is enough to spoil the transparency of absinthe.” ? What was it about the Seine that attracted so … Continue reading

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dial m for money

and manipulation. A nice cozy complicity. How to understand Bob Diamond? Maybe he rose to his level of incompetence. Or, perhaps we can compare Diamond to what writer  Jean Genet once said said about himself, that the only thing he … Continue reading

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genius of action: power of whim and command

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i’ve come to realize that there are two sorts of genius in this world. since we are ‘dualists’ in western culture (at least since descartes), it’s not an odd thing to see. there is, of course, … Continue reading

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elected to the plurality of gods

They are both waiting fot their angels to call them. The disordering of the senses and a powerful and arrogant imagination. A belief that what is best and most courageous in him goes back before The Fall. Yes, a medieval … Continue reading

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touching a flaming comet

The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading

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at the approach of madness the tide recedes

Mercy. To be relieved of one’s own consciousness.  Codifying surrealism into a vernacular language.Not like the mutuality of life and death, the proximity of opening a heavy dark door and entering the blackness to grab your attention.If you can’t leave … Continue reading

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rimbaud: farewell of the damned

He held out for some sort of salvation, but what that was to be, its form, went largely unknown and undefined. The broken home, childhood sexual trauma, abusive parents, addiction. Like Jean Genet, the criminal and outlaw experience informed the … Continue reading

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PICASSO, Visual Violence and the Unbinding of Desire: JUST BECAUSE

After the first World War, Andre Breton came to Picasso’s studio….. saw Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and recognised it as the definitive modern masterpiece. Breton, the leader of the surrealists, saw in it a painting about the revolutionary menace of the … Continue reading

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DETONATING VOCABULARY: Invisible Fame Of An Anti-Language

The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction. — Mary Douglas A publisher … Continue reading

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TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness

His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading

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