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Look at the expressionism in my phone. The naturalism of my flesh. The modernism of the urinal, the surrealism of its disuse. Look at the contemporary still lives going in and out of the still life.
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A large part of artistry is a kind of gravity: to be successful, the world I will must be robust enough to exert a gravity over yours, moving you towards how I see everything. I must show you a firmer footing while throwing you off balance, thus proving it can’t keep you steady.
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The noble impulse to turn one’s nose up at everything that moves, to become frozen, to move at your own pace: that hackneyed saying “the beat of your own drum,” which carries still the group as subject. To walk in your own gait.
Honestly, I kind of appreciate the zoomers who disdain sex. The masses are obsessed with sex; it's disgusting. My only criticism is that they haven't figured out anything to replace it with that's less despicable.
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I like the idea of a silent funeral, with no eulogies, where salvation relies upon a death sermon by the dying while they still have a chance.
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In 1727 Cotton Mather, in an appended essay of the Biblia concerning Christ’s return, cuts himself off, writing “MANUM DE TABULA” (hands off the table). Over that year he would become sick and die in February 1728.
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This is the only magic trick we can pull post-Warhol, and an early emanation of a future past this may be as simple as a completely non-classed non-browed work of constant reclassification.
When a novel opens with a double epigraph pairing quotes from a heady philosophers and contemporary pop stars, like oh my god is that allowed?? Can she even do that?????
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A good first triage of the last century could come in watching the wriggling indecision of a mouth at “-ism” and the brisk tongue-teeth match light “-ist”.
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