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America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth.
Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.Jean Baudrillard, America -
By the mid-1960s the conviction was not merely that the realistic novel was no longer possible but that American life itself no longer deserved the term ‘real’. Writers in the university creative writing programs had long, phenomenological discussions in which they decided that the act of writing words on a page was the real thing and the so-called real world of America was the fiction, requiring the suspension of disbelief.
Tom Wolfe, ‘Introduction: Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast,’ The Bonfire of the Vanities -
I saw the best minds of my generation … run down by the drunken taxi-cabs of absolute reality.
Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (via platonic-romance)
Misquoting Ginsberg. Worrrk.
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Daphne Guinness: where the dream-state and reality meet.
Posted on May 5, 2011 via Daphne Guinness - Style Icon with 37 notes
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The key is to strike a balance, to temper fantasy with reality.
Lynn Nigro -
Everyone is staring down at their menus. Looking for sweet pleasures. Looking for compounded happiness from life’s degustation menu of minute servings of pleasure. Matching wines as optional extras.
I’ve been working on a short story since July. I put it down for a while because I was getting bored, but then I realised that it was my escape from the actual mediocrity of life.
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