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Robert Byron
“They say it is possible to see stars from the bottom of a well when the sun is shining.”
Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana

“The lesson for this Round, as we shall hear time and again, is that each generation inhabits a different acoustic universe, constituted by different musics and memories of sound, by different thicknesses of walls and densities of traffic, by different means of manufacture and broadcast, by different diets and ear-damaging diseases, by different proportions and preponderances of metal rattling in kitchens, clanging on the streets, or ringing in the ( differently polluted) air above.”
Hillel Schwartz, Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond

Derek Jarman
“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.”
Derek Jarman

Peter Wessel Zapffe
“A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.”
Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays og Epistler

Clementine von Radics
“I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have to tell you
even the way
you drink your coffee
knocks me the fuck out.”
Clementine von Radics

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