Why is Ghislaine evil? Maybe her mistake was just taking the gig in the first place. "In the times of treason, the landscapes are beautiful," wrote the German Expressionist playwright Heiner Muller. From behind the seamless backdrops of the Iron Curtain, Buchner's streetlamps glow. The rest of Muller's 1956 elegy is as Byzantine a cryptographic problem as any that penetrates the present-day paranoia sweeping bleeding edge enterprise development: "Beware the red deer in yellow shoes".
Nobody who understood 1956 in Budapest bought 1968 in France:
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
Not letting the bastards grind you down is exhausting. So is maintaining the innocence of everyone around you.
To take “cancel culture” at face value is to take it slant. The imp of the perverse is not demon but impulse, the underground current of the bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even.What’s more interesting is the dedicated investment in – but that which is considered especially perverse, we like as that of h– who, shuddering on the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge.” Poe’s imp is a symbolic metaphor for all that’s silent because it speaks loud, all that is true because it is funny, and all that is Satanic because it is kink: the jar of vaseline in the Oval Office, the mops soaked with blood at the Modern, the Barbara Kruger streaked with shit, the Kul Kunst Klan. The whores in blackface playing chess, the checkmate, the cook, his wife, her lover… . The limousine that looks like a schoolbus parked in front of the Cooper Union, circa 2011. The swimming pools of Mar-a-lago spiked with international waters. Every umbilical cord of gold that gives each, successive rising class the downward spiral it deserves. The whores in blackface, the dead rabbits, the predatory structure of pedagogical capital, the rape fantasy you didn’t know you had,