three

christine gray

maybe I'm amazed

the encore:

the human condition

"I sang this to my husband last year on our 16th wedding anniversary.....I'm now divorced, but it's still a great song...and the feeling was there at the time, so anyway....here it is.... "

from the divine irreference of images

One can see that the iconoclasts, whom one accuses of disdaining and negating images, were those who accorded them their true value, in contrast to the iconolaters, who only saw reflections in them and were content to venerate a filigree God. On the other hand, one can say that the icon worshipers were the most modern minds, the most adventurous, because, in the guise of having God become apparent in the mirror of images, they were already enacting his death and his disappearance in the epiphany of his representations (which, perhaps, they already knew no longer represented anything, that they were purely a game, but that it was therein the great game lay- knowing also that it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

...This way the stake will always have been the murderous power of images, murderers of the real, murderers of their own model, as the Byzantine icons could be those divine identity. To this murderous power is opposed that of representations as a dialectical power, the visible and intelligible mediation of the Real. All Western faith and good faith became engaged in this wager on representation: that a sign could refer to the depth of meaning, that a sign could be exchanged for meaning and that something could guarantee this exchange- God of course. But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to the signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer itself anything but a gigantic simulacrum- not unreal, but a simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.

Such is simulation, insofar as it is opposed to representation. Representation stems from the principle of the equivalence of the sign and of the real (even if this equivalence is utopian, it is a fundamental axiom). Simulation, on the contrary, stems from the utopia of the principle of equivalence, from the radical negation of the sign as value, from the sign as the reversion and death sentence of every reference. Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as a false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum.

you guys are gonna laugh at me but for some reason when she said the loss of fertility all i could feel was pain physical pain

new year's eve a

dry spell in between

all the rain we have had recently

the bird

came in

to roost

at 16:10

and was severely incommoded by the noise of fireworks and four children letting off party poppers and sparklers

at the turn of the year

BBC Radio 4 lost the feed on Big Ben

so we had to

guess when the exact moment occurred

the bird looked very worried for a bit

and thought

of leaving into the dark

but then thought better of it

and settled down

resignedly

the surrealist manifesto: pure psychic automatism

security scars

give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you

ball lightning

People have reported seeing ball lightning—a rare phenomenon that resembles a glowing sphere of electricity—for hundreds of years.

But scientists still can't explain what causes it, or even exactly what it is.While some skeptics remain, there is significant observational evidence for ball lightning's existence.

"[There are] around 10,000 written accounts of observations covering many countries with similar properties recurring in many observations," said John Abrahamson, a professor of chemistry at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand."

All this points to a phenomenon which is repeatable and justifies a single label.

"Thousands of eyewitnesses have described seeing a floating, glowing ball similar to a tennis ball or even a beach ball.

The sightings generally accompany thunderstorms, but it's unclear what other similarities ball lightning might share with its conventional relative. Ball lightning floats near the ground, sometimes bounces off the ground or other objects, and does not obey the whims of wind or the laws of gravity.

An average ball lightning glows with the power of a 100-watt bulb. Some have been reported to melt through glass windows and burn through screens.

The record suggests that ball lightning is not inherently deadly, but there are reports of people being killed by contact—most notably the pioneering electricity researcher Georg Richmann, who died in 1753.

Richmann is believed to have been electrocuted by ball lightning as he conducted a lightning-rod experiment in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The phenomenon lasts only a short time, perhaps ten seconds, before either fading away or violently dissipating with a small explosion.

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collective consciousness

two

as for carpets-

-they were originally reproductions of gardens-

(the garden is a rug onto which the whole world comes to enact its symbolic per

fec tion. and the rug is a sort of garden that can move across space)

.

the garden-

-is the smallest parcel of the world-

-and then it is the totality of the world-

spirit anatomy

bread and body

one

we are all of us lost in the chasm between a pristine return to the past and our desire of the impossibility to recapture