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A screenshot of a a ‘Shelved by Genre’ episode with a duration oh 4h23
“The Gooneral's attendees didn't care that Malone was, from all available evidence, not a gooner at all but rather an unaffiliated, lone-wolf pervert.”
a quote from Hannah Arendt's introduction to Walter Benjamin's 'Illuminations': Critique [he wrote] is concerned with the truth content of a work of art, the commentary with its subject matter. The relationship be- tween the two is determined by that basic law of literature according to which the work~s truth content is the more relevant the more in- conspicuously and intimately it is bound up with its subject matter. If therefore precisely those works turn out to endure whose truth is most deeply embedded in their subject matter, the beholder who con- templates them long after their own time finds the realia all the more striking in the work as they have faded away in the world. This means that subject matter and truth content, united in the work's early period, come apart during its afterlife; the subject matter be~ comes more striking while the truth content retains its original con- cealment. To an ever-increasing extent, therefore, the interpretation of the striking and the odd, that is, of the subject matter, be~omes a prerequisite for any later critic. One may liken him to a paleographer in front of a parchment whose faded text is covered by the stronger outlines of a script referring to that text.
An instagram advert for a plastic 'bed of nails' with the text "Expensive for what it it – Thomas M"
Grass growing weakly through a grey cobbled pavement. The framing is vertically downwards.