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Think of yourself in a wider context.
February 20, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Think of yourself in a wider context.
You can have this played back in slow motion, or do you want it in infra-red, or do you want this, or that -- take your pick, like a jukebox.
February 20, 2026 at 3:15 AM
You can have this played back in slow motion, or do you want it in infra-red, or do you want this, or that -- take your pick, like a jukebox.
We simply don't need so many men today.
February 19, 2026 at 7:15 PM
We simply don't need so many men today.
It's a pity that his association with drugs and homosexuality has made him a counterculture figure, but I suppose his real links are with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and the Beats.
February 19, 2026 at 11:15 AM
It's a pity that his association with drugs and homosexuality has made him a counterculture figure, but I suppose his real links are with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and the Beats.
Crash is a clear case of that; so is Atrocity Exhibition.
February 19, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Crash is a clear case of that; so is Atrocity Exhibition.
Her hips pressed against the BMW, and the curvature of its door deflected the lines of her thigh, as if the car was a huge orthopaedic device that expressed a voluptuous mix of geometry and desire.
February 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Her hips pressed against the BMW, and the curvature of its door deflected the lines of her thigh, as if the car was a huge orthopaedic device that expressed a voluptuous mix of geometry and desire.
There should be more of them, at least one in every borough, and London would become a surrealist and poetic city.
February 18, 2026 at 11:15 AM
There should be more of them, at least one in every borough, and London would become a surrealist and poetic city.
As a result of, many younger writers and filmmakers are now simply expressing their own obsessions; that is all that is left that they feel they can say something truthful about.
February 18, 2026 at 3:15 AM
As a result of, many younger writers and filmmakers are now simply expressing their own obsessions; that is all that is left that they feel they can say something truthful about.
The American Army?
February 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The American Army?
What's so sad about most people's lives, my own included, is that they accept the roles that are given them.
February 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM
What's so sad about most people's lives, my own included, is that they accept the roles that are given them.
Very few in the case of Surrealism, but not many more in the case of Science Fiction.
February 17, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Very few in the case of Surrealism, but not many more in the case of Science Fiction.
My mother tipsily climbed the miniature stairs, listening to my father declaim the postman's naive verses in his resonant baritone.
February 16, 2026 at 7:15 PM
My mother tipsily climbed the miniature stairs, listening to my father declaim the postman's naive verses in his resonant baritone.
More and more of what used to be regarded as aberrant or perverse activity is now accepted as more or less conventional behaviour.
February 16, 2026 at 11:15 AM
More and more of what used to be regarded as aberrant or perverse activity is now accepted as more or less conventional behaviour.
I conceive of certain possibilities and extend them through an act of imagination.
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 AM
I conceive of certain possibilities and extend them through an act of imagination.
Bourgeois life is crushing the imagination from this planet.
February 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Bourgeois life is crushing the imagination from this planet.
You tell yourself these tales of gold to sustain yourself, to inspire this one-man team.
February 15, 2026 at 11:15 AM
You tell yourself these tales of gold to sustain yourself, to inspire this one-man team.
Dark Star is the Catch-22 of outer space.
February 15, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Dark Star is the Catch-22 of outer space.
Lists are fascinating; one could almost do a list novel.
February 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Lists are fascinating; one could almost do a list novel.
During the night the swimming-pool had drained itself.
February 14, 2026 at 11:15 AM
During the night the swimming-pool had drained itself.
Schools of architecture and design like Art Deco and the Modernist movement were engines running forward into the future.
February 14, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Schools of architecture and design like Art Deco and the Modernist movement were engines running forward into the future.
An institutionalized paranoia seems a bleak future for the human race.
February 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
An institutionalized paranoia seems a bleak future for the human race.
People will soon be living only in the present and will not be interested in the future at all.
February 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM
People will soon be living only in the present and will not be interested in the future at all.
It's a good thing he established his reputation in the late 1960s when people were still prepared to make a bit of an effort . . . I think critical judgments were sharper then.
February 13, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's a good thing he established his reputation in the late 1960s when people were still prepared to make a bit of an effort . . . I think critical judgments were sharper then.
He describes the fate of the isolated man who is surrounded by a vast and impenetrable bureaucracy, and begins to accept himself on the terms the bureaucracy imposes.
February 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
He describes the fate of the isolated man who is surrounded by a vast and impenetrable bureaucracy, and begins to accept himself on the terms the bureaucracy imposes.
Before the Iraq War, my feeling was one of great anxiety.
February 12, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Before the Iraq War, my feeling was one of great anxiety.