Sublime

He puts his ear to the ground.

Kompliziertheiten entpuppen sich als ein notwendiger Umweg zum ruhenden Punkt: eine Kapriole, die sich lohnt.

Offensichtlich zeichnen sich Lebewesen dadurch aus, dass ihnen gerade das Zentrum fehlt – und dass sie doch aus einer Perspektive heraus handeln können.

Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

Ballard's novel paints a dark dystopian picture — the architecture of a single residential tower becomes the driving force for mysterious changes of the tenants behaviour.

‘He has the feeling,’ Kafka writes in another aphorism, ‘that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way.’

I was going downtown to kill a man who hadn’t done a damned thing to me, to kill an old guy whose only fault as far as I knew was throwing chewing gum wrappers in the street. I was going to kill him because I wanted money more than I wanted him to live and I was going to kill him filthily. Or maybe I wasn’t. Maybe he was going to kill me and go on

Le petit bourgeois français n’avait certainement pas assez d’imagination pour se représenter un monde comme le nôtre si différent du sien, un monde où à chaque carrefour la Police d’État guetterait les suspects, filtrerait les passants, ferait du moindre portier d’hôtel, responsable de ses fiches, son auxiliaire bénévole et public. Mais tout en se