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,...
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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:...
Alphabetarion # Rain | Virginia Woolf, 1929
Kasamatsu Shiro, Night Rain at the Shinobazu Pond, 1938 . "A wet day. And I am glad of the rain,...
Alphabetarion # Fire | Jorge Luis Borges, 1946
Françoise Clarinval, Le Feu (Fire), 1926 . "Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river...
Alphabetarion # Alive | Sylvia Plath, 1951-53
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Lovers in the Library, 1930 . "There are a few times when the songs that are written,...
Alphabetarion # Street | Nelson Algren (1909 – 1981)
Kurt Schwitters, Mz x 21 Street, 1947. “He said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk...
Alphabetarion # Abruptly | Colm Tóibín
Charlotte Hilmer, Sleeping, 1956 . “Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”...
Alphabetarion # Contradiction | Marcel Duchamp, 1958
Marcel Duchamp, Self Portrait in Profile, 1958. "I force myself to contradict myself, so as to avoid conforming to my...