Untitled ‘Pink is not a colour, it is the bastard of triumphant red and guilty light; born of incest where hell and heaven have played their parts, it has remained the colour of shame.’ — Jean Ray, ‘La Terreur Rose’
Untitled ‘It happened that before you arrived here, all the dreams had been dreamed, and you had entered a dreamless territory.’ — Can Xue, ‘An Episode with no Foundation’.
Untitled ‘I do not know how best to makes sense of the vast conceptual gaps between the equally uninviting options of either just hailing the existence of a discourse, or only assessing its quantifiable effects. … An ideology is not reassuringly without “effects” simply because it isn’t wholeheartedly suscribed to.’ — Denise Riley, The War in… Continue reading Untitled
Untitled ‘[I]n her, the dry gasp of scabbed and blistered giving, and out, at her, a great mange, making vigour waste and all growing, violent.’ — Jennifer Lash, Get Down There and Die.
Untitled ‘[A]s long as we see war as something outside and beyond civilised discourse, a traumatic “Real” manifesting a truth beyond language, we will continue to obscure the violence foundational to American empire and global capitalism.’ — Roy Scranton, Total Mobilization.
Untitled ‘I am an anorak wanting inspiration by an anoraknophobic God.’ — Laura Del-Rivo, ‘Notes on Time’
52. ‘[Y]ou know what I think of language? That it’s a fake horizon and there’s something else, a real truthful thing, but language is keeping us from it. And I think we should torture language to stop fucking around and tell it to us. We should torture language to tell the truth.’ — Rachel Kushner, The… Continue reading 52.