I’m entirely moodless. That is – hair up, rent money on my desk, Death in Venice, and without mood entirely. I can hear people beating the snow off the shop eaves and it sounds like muffled gun shots, near misses on the melting ground. Had a dream last night that I’m pretty sure was some kind of visual representation of hell-on-earth: a mountain trail, seen above the water level, a procession of walkers on its winding path – all of them in a line, their bodies on fire. My dream told me they were dead. Though hellfire didn’t register with me until long after I had my juicebox this afternoon. That’s the last time I intently study Dali paintings before going to bed. The underwater skeletons did me in.
Posted by caroline at December 1, 2006 3:14 PMor maybe you could blame this all on death in venice. a truly deplorable livre.
Posted by: m at December 1, 2006 4:39 PMor the firey fireballs of curry i made for dinner last night. flamed me right out. combination of things.
Posted by: caroline at December 1, 2006 5:55 PMBetter a Death in Venice than a White Death: tuberculosis. That way you get to see the canals (at least) rather than coughing up a spatter of blood before being offed like a Victorian period heroine.
Posted by: ben at December 1, 2006 6:30 PMa) death is venice is brilliant, as are you.
b) the best part of this apartment is that there are so many ambient sounds that resemble gunshots: engine backfires, slamming dumpsters, staccato karaoke: it gives me the feel of a ghetto life, without the actual danger. hyperreality: baudrillard's simulacratic exotic.
c) Mann vs. Dali: the dionysian exhalts while apollo is grocery shopping, ostensibly seeing Ginsberg seeing Whitman in the produce section, testing the pomegranates for freshness.
d) xoxoxo
I dunno, ben i hear cholera is pretty fuckin awful. by that i mean an incredibly painful way to die.
Posted by: caroline at December 4, 2006 8:11 PMhere is a faithful caroline reader telling you to write more. we want you to write more.
Posted by: hannah at December 19, 2006 10:46 AMgeez. i guess it has been awhile. i've been in fogland since term ended. i'll post soon. thanks for the reminder there!