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". . . [I]t was no longer a commodity fetish; it was art before or after capital . . . An art commodity that had been exorcised (and survived the exorcism) of the fetishism of the market was to me a utopian readymade—an object for or from a future where there was some other regime of value than the tyranny of price."

"There was the sound of clapping . . . and he turned back to see that someone had launched a balloon from the balcony. No, a lantern, an illuminated red paper globe, probably a threat to sea life. It floated slowly past them and out over the water. From their respective present tenses, they all watched the same turbulent point."

Ben Lerner scrivimi la vita

2/2: ". . . Bernard and Natali were always working and never working, that is, they were always reading and writing . . . there was no division between labor and leisure; their days were not structured conventionally; the house was not subject to quotidian rhythms but to the strange duration of the literary."

1/2: "This condition of temporal exception was in part the effect of a level of literary accomplishment that struck me as anachronistic . . . Moreover, the house they inhabited in Providence—a house so full of books that it seemed built of books also felt exempt from time . . ."

"I walked home through the park. 'You have failed to reconcile the realism of my body with the ethereality of the trees,' I said to the mist. Because the park is on the flight path, the city corrals and euthanizes geese. Which mate for life, I confirmed on Wikipedia. The glow of the screen seemed to come off on my hand."

". . . [N]othing in me or the store had changed . . . but, as the eye [of the storm] drew near, what normally felt like the only possible world became one among many, its meaning everywhere up for grabs, however briefly—in the passing commons of a train, in a container of tasteless coffee."