The library at Alexandria can be burnt down. There are forces above and beyond papyrus: we may temporarily be deprived of our ability to discover these forces, but their energy will not be suppressed. It is good that our excessive facilities are no longer available, that forms fall into oblivion: a culture without space or time, restrained only by the capacity of its own nerves, will reappear with all the more energy. It is right that from time to time cataclysms occur which compel us to return to nature, i.e., to rediscover life. The old totemism of animals, stones, objects capable of discharging thunderbolts, costumes impregnated with bestial essences--everything, in short, that might determine, disclose, and direct the secret forces of the universe--is for us a dead thing, from which we derive nothing but static and aesthetic profit, the profit of an audience, not of an actor.
--Antonin Artaud
--Antonin Artaud
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monkeybuttt:
you always look slightly retarded. that's why we love you! 
photoline:
