Showing posts with label Marcel Duchamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marcel Duchamp. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Musical Cubes



FABIO: For God's sake, Maurizio, what the hell do I care about Descartes?

MAURIZIO: Let me finish! You will care, you'll see. He told me that Descartes, in examining our sense of reality, had one of the most terrifying thoughts any human being has ever had: that if our dreams had any regularity, we would no longer be able to distinguish between sleeping and waking! Have you ever noticed how disturbing it is to to have the same dream more than once? You begin to think you are dealing with something tangible, something real. Because our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences...

[Luigi Pirandello, tr. W. Murray]



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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Mr. Natural's Patamobile




















The ex-priest and the released criminal keep making faces: what they desire is a face without a past.--But have you ever seen people who know that their faces reflect the future and who are so polite to you who love the "age" that they make a face without a future?

[Friedrich Nietzsche, tr. Kaufmann]

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009