Alphabetarion # Arrival | Joseph Conrad, 1899
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, The Arrival, 1913 . “I watched the coast. Watching a coast as it slips by the...
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Alphabetarion # Distance | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795
Paul Klee, Southern (Tunisian) gardens, 1919. “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities;...
Alphabetarion # Language | Philippe Sollers
Stephen Antonakos, 1988 . "Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even...
Alphabetarion # Mechanize | Raoul Vaneigem, 1967
Isamu Noguchi, Radio Nurse, 1937 . “The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are...
Alphabetarion # Memory | Alejandra Pizarnik, 1936-1972
Gene Charlton, A Memory, 1953 . "My only country is my memory and it has no hymns." Alejandra Pizarnik, 1936-1972
Alphabetarion # Tear | William Blake, 1800
Jean (Hans) Arp, Enak’s Tears (Terrestrial Forms), 1917 . "A tear is an intellectual thing." William Blake, The Grey Monk,...
Alphabetarion # Hallucination | Roland Barthes, 1980
Moorish tessellations, Alhambra de Granada, 1936. "I am trying to render the special quality of this hallucination..." Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida,...
Alphabetarion # The Spirit of the Stairway | Chuck Palahniuk, 2005
Gaston Bertrand: Composition (the yellow staircase), 1946. “People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: Esprit...
Alphabetarion # Lack | Heiner Müller, 1929-1995
Ilya Chashnik, Suprematism, 1920 . “Optimism is just lack of information.” Heiner Müller, 1929-1995
Alphabetarion # Survival | John Banville, 2009
Léopold Survage, Abstract Cityscape, 1924 . "The secret of survival is a defective imagination." John Banville, The Infinities, 2009 .Also:...