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Madame, Monsieur, regardez la Danse !
Madame, Monsieur, regardez la Danse !

Joseph Mitchell

Le pique-nique de Houdini

Les calypsos viennent de Trinidad, une île britannique des Caraïbes proche de la côte du Venezuela qui fournit aussi au monde de l’asphalte ainsi que l’amer Angustura. Ils sont composés par des hommes hautains, amoraux qui boivent sec et qui se donnent le nom de calypsoniens. En grande majorité ce sont des Noirs. Une guitare sous le bras, ils passent leur temps dans les rhumeries et les cafés chinois de Marine Square et Frederick Street à Port-of-Spain, la ville principale...
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Diane Williams

How about some string?

I said “Would you like a rope? You know that haul you have is not secured properly.”
“No,” he said, “but I see you have string!”
“If this comes into motion—” I said, “you should use a rope.”
“Any poison ivy on that? ” he asked me, and I told him my rope had been in the barn peacefully for years.
He took a length of it to the bedside table. He had no concept for what wood could endure.
“Table must have broken when I lashed it onto the truck,” he said.
And, when he was moving the sewing machine, he let the cast iron wheels—bang, bang on the stair.
I had settled down to pack up the flamingo cookie jar, the cutlery, and the cookware, but stopped briefly, for how many times do you catch sudden sight of something heartfelt?
I saw our milk cows in their slow...

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Es gibt kein absolutes Besonderes.

Rolf Bossart, Milo Rau

Es gibt kein absolutes Besonderes.

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Ein Roadtrip ohne Road

Mário Gomes

Ein Roadtrip ohne Road

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Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

Externalized memory had always proceeded by contractions, summaries, reductions, selections, breaks in flow, as well as by organization, classification, boiling down. Card catalogues reduced thousands of works to a few key notions; tables of contents contracted the hundreds of pages in a given book. The sign itself was the first abbreviation of experience. An epic stitched of words was an abbreviation of the war, the long years of which were reduced to a few nights of recitation; the written text that recorded the epic was a contraction of the oral narration which pushed aside its sensory richness, melody, life in a thousand details. In accumulating, every level of abbreviation reconstituted an infinite flow, a new dilation that would be contracted in its turn. From the plurality of pages to the index and the table of contents; from the plurality of books to card catalogues.

The abbreviated elements were further arranged, situated...

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Filmidee und literarisches Meisterwerk: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision.
Filmidee und literarisches Meisterwerk: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision.

James Agee

Der Tramp und die Bombe

Eine Atombombe explodiert über New York. Die entsetzlichen Auswirkungen hat niemand vorhergesehen: Kein menschliches Wesen hat überlebt. Mit Ausnahme des Tramp. Durch die menschenleere Wüstenei eines post-apokalyptischen New York wankt Charlie Chaplin in seiner Paraderolle als Vagabund, dem nur sein tiefschwarzer Humor geblieben ist. Und er stößt auf weitere Überlebende: eine junge Frau, ein Neugeborenes – und ein Grüppchen Wissenschaftler, die sich inmitten der Ruinen eine Basis für ihre neue Weltordnung eingerichtet haben… 1947 wendet sich James Agee an den von...
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Stephen Barber

An immodest proposal

J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-­alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience. As Ballard emphasises several times in the World Versus America notebooks, he is utterly serious in his concerns and visions.
Although the Ballard ­estate declined permission for any images of pages from the World Versus America archival notebooks to accompany this essay, any member of the general public interested to do so can readily visit the British Library and view the notebooks in their entirety in the freely-­accessible manuscripts collection there.

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