Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhym...e, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel wh...en it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straig...htshooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the ho...rrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A different world can be created or re-created--but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite ...and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »