6 June
1875 birth of Thomas Mann
Museumpeace
2000.06.06
PMA
2003.06.06
going crackers 001
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Even Staircase Decending Bachelors
The Bachelors Eighty Years After
Scrolling The Bell and the Glass
2003.06.06
homage to Matta-Clark's father and godfather
2003.06.06 13:45
Re: Weapons of Mass Tampons
2003.06.06 13:54
Re: making it in the art world in NYC
2004.06.06 11:29
Re: Memorial Life
2004.06.06 11:44
2004.06.06 11:53
Genetic Engineering
2006.06.06 09:07
2006.06.06 09:15
2006.06.06 09:16
Ottositions 2
Ottober 28
2006.06.06
Ottober 28
2006.06.06 12:33
Unknowing
2006.06.06 12:39
"The deaths in this novel--José Arcadio Buendía's, Arcadio's, Colonel Aureliano's, Amaranta's, José Arcadio's--are unforgettable because, accented personally, they emerge from within the being who is to die. "In the course of modern times," Benjamin writes, "dying has been pushed further and further out of the perceptual world of the living" (Illuminations, 93-4). In the modern bourgeois world, he goes on to say, one dies a standard death issued by sanatoria and hospitals. Not so in García Márquez's novel, in which we die as ourselves, eventually going elsewhere, but capable of returning if need be. Death is here a dimension of ineffaceable human being, not--as the Enlightenment/scientific tradition has insisted for over three hundred years--its permanent extinction. Put otherwise, folk cultures around the globe encountered and found narrative terms for death long before Western science took on the task. Recurrently in their view, death is a chapter in the common human drama, not the end of the book."
--Philip Wienstein, Unknowing: The Work of Modern Fiction (2005), p. 241.
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Ottober 28
2006.06.06 12:33
Tafuri deathdate ?
2004.10.22 11:46
Anyone know the date of Manfredo Tafuri's death in 1994?
I searched the web and can't find any specific date except for what appears to be note of Herbert Muschamp's Tafuri Obituary published 8 May 1994.
Thanks in advance.
[Tafuri is "dying" for an invitation to any of the 2005 events of the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention, but John the Baptist Piranesi continually insists that Otto and Maria not invite him.
"Then again, if you do invite that cobweb-head, I could trick him into one of my prisons."
"Why don't you just design a new sarcophagus for him?"
"Ha! As usual Maria, you're brilliant!"
"You can say that again. Oh, and by the way, are you coming to our next dinner party? Isma'il (Raji al-Faruqi) and Lois (Lamya al-Faruqi) are a 'for sure' and Lois is bringing some of her famous saffron rice."
"You're funny too Otto. You know I never miss an opportunity to dine with the last Palestinian Governor of Galilee. Besides, I'm bringing Melania the Older and the Younger--they gave it all up for Galilee too."
"Good. You'll be enjoying saffron rice, and Tafuri will be eating his heart out.]
...and speaking of Colin Rowe('s sense of humor)
[Julian, James and John are busy, busy, busy. Ben's given his blessing, but Jacques "Strap" Gréber thinks it a bit rash and itchy for them not to be playing with him too. "It is after all my original design that they are interpolating!"
"Is it true that Ottositions and Ottober magazines are secretly being worked on?"
"I'd say you're dead on."]
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