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The possibilities of weapons had become so great that the mineral element became a part of the fluidity of fluid; with the exception of rock, all the Earth is part of the movement of the ocean, a mutation of physical territory, in fact the first type of 'disintegration' before the arrival of nuclear arms. In truth, the principle of arms has always been aimed at this deconstruction, first of man's body, of armor, then of the rampart built for his protection. Afterwards, the very conditions of the human habitat became the primary objectives of this destruction/destructuration.
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The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. In the memories of those who lived through them, the grim day of plague do not stand out like vivid flames, ravenous and inextinguishable, beaconing a troubled sky, but rather like the slow deliberate progress of some monstrous thing crushing out all upon its path.
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What makes painting 'impossible'? What makes 'great' painting impossible? Perhaps it is a sense of belatedness, a conviction that an earlier generation or artist has left only a few scraps to be cleaned up. Or maybe, at a particular moment, in a particular life and history, nothing could seem more presumptuous or inappropriate—maybe even obscene—than to set out to create a masterpiece. Impossibility can also be the result of the artist making excessive demands on the work, demands to which current practice has no reply.
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Great indeed the reputation Of the ancient beer of Kalew, Said to make the feeble hardy, Famed to dry the tears of women, Famed to cheer the broken-hearted, Make the aged young and supple, Make the timid brave and mighty, Make the brave men ever braver, Fill the heart with joy and gladness, Fill the mind with wisdom-sayings, Fill the tongue with ancient legends, Only makes the fool more foolish.

Elias Lönnrot, "On Brewing" from the Kalevala, c. 1835

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What do you think endures? Do you think a great city endures? Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships? Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'oeuvres of engineering, forts, armaments? Away! these are not to be cherish'd for themselves, They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them, The show passes, all does well enough of course, All does very well till one flash of defiance. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women, If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Walt Whitman, "Song of the Broad-Axe" in Leaves of Grass, c. 1855 (via gutenberg)

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