H e t e r o t o p ia

"That’s the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image."
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
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"Julia! Julia! Julia, my love! Julia!"
For a moment he had had an overwhelming hallucination of her presence. She had seemed to be not merely with him, but inside him.
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

'It was a dream. We live inside a dream.'

We live in a perpetual state of dystopian war with no end in sight. War is eternal, impersonal and ahistorical. Love, on the other hand, is personal, temporal and the ultimate form of resistance. While war serves the interests of the government through fear, love is an anti-fascist act.

All it takes to prove that the Constitution in the US is flawed: elect a President who's willing to corrupt it. Couldn't happened in an advanced Democracy in Europe.

I believe America is lost.

Winston: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

#Photography Raúl Cañibano, Cuba

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― Robert Pogue Harrison, Forests: The Shadow of Civilisation
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#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, "Tree Stories".

“The outlaws, the heroes, the wanderers, the lovers, the saints, the persecuted, the outcasts, the bewildered, the ecstatic ― these are among those who have sought out the forest’s asylum in the history… Without such outside domains, there is no inside to dwell.” (1)

"It was not necessary to know much."
— George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Insomnia.

"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest... Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."
― Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de la rêverie
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#Art Hermann Glöckner (1933), Folded Strips in Red White on Black.

“Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement
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“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.”
― Gaston Bachelard, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire
(Bachelard’s final work on the element of fire, edited posthumously by his daughter Suzanne Bachelard.)
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#Photography Georgy Kolosov

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!"
― Yuri Gagarin (1961)

“Everything will be all right. And, even if it won't be, we’ll have the consolation of having lived honest lives.”
― Alexei Navalny

VLADIMIR:
I don't understand.
ESTRAGON:
Use your intelligence, can't you?
(Vladimir uses his intelligence.)
VLADIMIR:
(finally). I remain in the dark.
―Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (tragicomedy in 2 acts)
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(A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.)

“Me, I don’t talk much… I just cut the hair.”
#Film The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), directed by Joel Cohen, written by Joel & Ethan Cohen. With actors Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand et al.

#Photography Ernst Haas
Courtesy Ernst Haas Estate

“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
― Dylan Thomas (Letter to Editor)

Clown In The Moon

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

― Dylan Thomas

Cloud Cleaner.
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison