Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005

The Mercedes is used as a piece of body armor. The single piece can be worn by the entire family as it moves about the island.

Deeper into Hereford, a real chocolate factory. Life is what you glimpse from your Mercedes. Is this experience universal?

Aslan was here: country estate in Hereford with what appears to be a smokestack on roof, glimpsed while driving past in Mercedes. The Charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory feel of life on a small island.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Thursday, November 03, 2005
The camera discovers a number of objects in the detritus of the attic--pregnancy cast made during labor, ladder, wedding dress sealed in white box, Ph.D lurking in its green tube--and gives them at most an authority equal to the means of egress. The way out, in other words, is just another object in the clutter, despite its privileged position on the frontier between here and there, up and down, transcendence and particularity. 


When Odysseus communicates with the world of the afterlife, he does so through a well that is, like the opening in Noah's ark, a cubit across. Circe instructs the hero, "dig a well shaft a forearm square."



