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One of my presiding thoughts is that humans as a species we have become detatched spiritually in favour of materialism, godless we aspire to money, teach our children the currency of fame is the only source of meaning, and blunder through life as adult children in repeating patterns.
Damian Hirsts 'For the Love of God' illustrates this perfectly, but does nothing in my opinion - it's like an epitaph, an undead Vanitas, it sits at the edge of the capitalist stratosphere, grinning and making money like a selfish cunt. That is not to say it doesn't reflect the truth. But what sort of value has it other that material? does it have the power to change anything? Does it cause the members of the consortium who invested in it to question what they are doing?
Has art arrived at the point at which it just doesn't give a shit?
Hangover today, an reading the Meaning of Modern Art - its great, like you said a while back it's what we should have done back in the day. Never too late though, got up to Kandinsky, looking forward to Futurism and Dada. I'll never fully understand the Large Glass, no one will I think... I much prefer early 20th Century art to conceptualism, it's just nicer to look at.
Bufoonerism is updated

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laser beans ruin play at the astoria

laser beans ruin play at the astoria

The opening night was a disaster, not only had the strange apparitions from the lavatory lingered like stolen lakes misted with tadpole plumes intent on taking the expression “break a leg” too far back as the audience squinted and fidgeted upon broken deck chairs and the illustrious

Daumal compares art and alpinism in this novel, saying

“Alpinism is the art of climbing mountains by confronting the greatest dangers with the greatest prudence. Art is used here to mean the accomplishment of knowledge in action. You cannot always stay on the summits. You have to come down again… So what’s the point? Only this: what is above knows what is below, what is below does not know what is above. While climbing, take note of all the difficulties along your path. During the descent, you will no longer see them, but you will know that they are there if you have observed carefully. There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know”

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collopsical

i ought not bridles and take, no no i am beat, i couldn’t even butchery and overkilled, it was wonderful, i hate to admit as i grit my teeth at the mere sight of its wonderlushness a fragment of tooth hits the screen and i’m just left staring, oh woe is man who claps the monolith Houdini cigarette laser discs!

gods teeth! far from losing i suddenly realize that i am still in the game!

A true Gentleman

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confound you!

a fabulous volley!

knocked me for six! (if only this was cricket, if only we would judge books by their covers)

with a heavy heartThe game is yours. I remain both vexed and delighted at the same time = hiccups.

I pace across the room, approach the court, attach, and ‘huh!’-send

yarbles

Oof! You vile scab!

may the hand of Hades beat you down!

I cough in the face of Postmen!

i riddle the ilks! have one in the yarbbles, you fiend-

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