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"Nature is a strange factory, relentless in its productivity. We like to think life and death are opposite states, but it’s all tangled up together, the cherry blossom and the cancer: a never-ending production of more, a monstrous fecundity – Dylan Thomas’s green fuse that drives the budding flower but also blasts the roots of trees."
— Nov 01, 2020 05:13AM
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"On Thursday 13 April 1989, [Derek Jarman] records a phone conversation with his beloved Howard Brookner, the brilliant young New York film-maker. Brookner had by then lost the power of speech and for twenty minutes communicated by way of a ‘low wounded moaning’, a devastation magnified by the technological wizardry that couldn’t cure him but sent his voice speeding halfway round the earth."
— Nov 01, 2020 12:14AM
