JAY WHITTEN
ul. Grochowa 4/5; 53-324 Wroclaw; POLAND
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ART LINKS
Mystery & Melancholy of a Street
Giorgio de Chirico, 1914
Basket of Fruit
Balthasar van der Ast
Junge Dame mit Perlenhalsband
Johannes Vermeer, um 1662-65
Marktfrau am Gemüsestand
Pieter Aertsen, 1567
Autumn Sun I
Egon Schiele, 1912
Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen
George Grosz, 1918
Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef
Francis Bacon
Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman
Albrecht Dürer, 1505
Artistin - Marcella
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910
The Dream
Max Beckmann, 1921
Winter
Hendrick Avercamp
Links: Linguistics, ESL, Translation, Misc.
Scattered Needles
My Syd Barrett Web Site
CHERRIES FALL WHERE TEXTS FAIL
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, davon muss man schweigen.
Wittgenstein
Surrealist Poetry of George W. Bush
BENJAMIN PERET
SPILLED BLOOD
The ashes which are the cigar's
malady
imitate the concierges rushing down the stairs
after their
broom that fell from the fifth floor
killed the gasman
that employee
resembling a bug in a salad
The bird lies in wait for a bug and it's
the broom that got you gasman
Your wife's hair will be white as
sugar
and her ears will be unpaid bills
unpaid because you are
dead
But why didn't this gasman have feet shaped like a three
why
didn't he have the lucid look of a glovestore
why didn't he have his
mother's dried-up breast hanging from his belly
why didn't he have
flies in the pockets of his jacket
He would have passed away damp and
cold like a smashed porcelain vase
and his hands would have caressed
the bars of his prison
But the sun in his pocket had put on its cap
--Benjamin Peret
translated by Keith Hollaman
"We must find out what words are and how they function. "In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...
Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S."
"We don't just report the news, we write it."
"Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love,
peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a
series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The
Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery,
Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt."
"Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?"
William S. Burroughs Language is a virus from outer space.
The Cut
Up Method by William S. Burroughs
They become
images when written down,
but images of words repeated in the
mind
and not of the image of the thing itself."
Missing a kick
at the icebox door
It closed anyway.
Jack Kerouac
Two situations, both critical and insoluble. One is the
total worthlessness of contemporary art. The other is the impotence of the
political class in front of Le Pen. The two situations are exchangeable,
and their solutions are transferable. Indeed, the inability to offer any
political alternative to Le Pen is displaced to the cultural terrain, to
the domain where a Holy Cultural Alliance prevails. Conversely, the
problematization of contemporary art can only come from a reactionary,
irrational, or even fascist mode of thinking.
What can we oppose to such a dignified conjuration of imbeciles?
Nothing.
Jean Baudrillard
A Conjuration
of Imbeciles