Daguerreologue | The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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Daguerreologue | The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon
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Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
I walk through rooms that remember laughter that is no longer mine, and I see faces that once held warmth and now hold only memory. And in that absence, I feel the yearning. I feel the hunger for a life that holds me together when everything else wants to pull me apart.
- I Owe Myself a Good Life (Substack)
Munch's ambition was to paint the story about the self, and the method he found was stylised and dream-like representations of inner experiences which were unified enough and lay close enough to known stories or archetypes to be decoded and understood. He removed everything specific and detailed, allowing only the unspecified sweep of memory to
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