gringocarioca: June 2007

Friday, June 29, 2007

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

. . .

"You say it's your birthday
It's my birthday too, yeah
They say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you"

(John Lennon & Paul McCartney, "Birthday")

"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."

(T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men")

Friday, June 08, 2007

Don't say just words, just say the Word . . .

Monday, June 04, 2007

One OR OtheR . . .

I told you so what !?!

les non dupes errent le nom du père pour le non du père

– I told you so!
– What?

– I told you . . .
– So what?

– I told you so what !?!
– Oh . . . I know . . .

– No, you don’t.
– Yes I do.

– You know you don’t.
– You know I do.

– No, I don’t.
– Yes you do.

– I know I don’t.
– I know you do.

– What?
– I told you so!

– Hey . . . say what . . .
– I told you so what !?!

Sunday, June 03, 2007

the message is a medium . . .

LCD: Turn on, log in, zone out . . .

. . .

The Three Virtues: Imperceptibility, Indiscernibility, and Impersonality

“To be present at the dawn of the world. Such is the link between imperceptibility, indiscernibility, and impersonality – the three virtues. To reduce oneself to an abstract line, a trait, and to find one’s zone of indiscernibility with other traits, and in this way enter the haecceity and impersonality of the creator. One is then like grass: one has made the world, everybody/everything, into a becoming, because one has made a necessarily communicating world, because one has suppressed in oneself everything that prevents us from slipping between things and growing in the midst of things.”

(Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi)