We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met?
Tour guide and writer Timothy Levitch on the New York “grid plan”
“The grid plan emanates from our weaknesses”
“The grid plan is […] homogenising in a city where there is homogenisation available. There is only total existence, total cacophony …”
“Let’s just blow up the grid plan and rewrite the streets to be much more a self-portraiture of our own personal struggles rather than some real estate broker’s wet dream from 1807.”
“By saying that everyone likes the grid plan, you’re saying ‘I’m going to relive all the mistakes my parents made…’“
Civilisation is the amputation of everything that ever happened to us, and experiment created by aliens unable to have sex.
Civilisation is the molestation of everything we could ever be, a giant repression melting into suppression, so that you never say what you mean.
Civilisation is breathing down our necks, splitting us apart, we are wreckage with beating hearts.
Civilisation is a can of hairspray spraying for the seasons less vain, into a hairnet made up of curls only ever meant to be waves.
Civilisation
Genocide beliefs
Moralistic
See through lace blouses
Missiles ballistic
Lackadasical
Melancholic
Red lipstick
When one feels nauseous but doesn't feel sick.
Civilisation knew who you were before you were born
Forgave you when you thought you needed forgiving.
And you never once surprised this civilisation.
And you never once felt that sensation.
When men can no longer bear the monotony and the banality of ordinary existence, they will find in each experience of the absolute an opportunity to commit suicide. The impossibility of surviving such extraordinary states of exaltation will destroy existence.
E. M. Cioran, from ”On the Heights of Despair”, translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
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