December 2008
8 posts
Searching for Galeen's Alraune
In the middle ages, the mandrake root (alraune, in German) was said to grow where the semen of hanged men fell when they were killed.
Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check the faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle.
-V. Nabokov: Speak, Memory
I was born during the Age of Machines.
The notion that there was some exact constant at which the tables turned, and cinema passed into obsolescence and thereby into art, is an appealing fiction that implies a special task for the metahistorian of cinema.–Hollis Frampton, 1971
