Zibaldone



An Occasional Miscellany

51.

Your film was released only on VHS & only in Pan-&-Scan. The widescreen version is lost. No one will ever see what was in the edges of shot, at which the characters stare.

50.

‘What did it feel like, assuming that a trash can could feel, to be a receptacle for every bit of garbage that came your way? Did it choke on each piece of refuse that came flying into it or did it take an austere pride in its silent self-abnegation?’

— Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God

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‘We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.’

— James Connolly, ‘Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee’

44.

‘Complication, tension, imbalance, selfishness: these are not just obstacles within the work-of-two, but central to its potential.’

—  Season Butler