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stigmata-oblongata

"Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires

Sisyphean patience for its song,

Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short

and Art is long."

- Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

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mary wigman : dance of the dead, 1927

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Carroll Borland and Bela Lugosi- MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935)

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By Laura Winter

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The great sufferers are never bored: disease fills them, the way remorse feeds the great criminals. For any intense suffering produces a simulacrum of plenitude and proposes a terrible reality to consciousness, which it cannot elude; while suffering without substance in that temporal mourning of ennui affords consciousness nothing that forces it to fruitful action. How to cure an unlocalized and supremely impalpable disease which infects the body without leaving any trace upon it, which insinuates itself into the soul without marking it by any sign? Ennui is like a sickness we have survived, but one which has absorbed our possibilities, our reserves of attention and has left us impotent to fill the void which follows upon the disappearance of our pangs and the fading of our torments. Hell is a haven next to this displacement in time, this empty and prostrate languor in which nothing stops us but the spectacle of the universe decaying before our eyes.

Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay