May 10, 2021
Alternatively, perhaps, the rupture is something to which we make a show of facing up; of recognising the misery of retreat, and holding ourselves in the melancholy recognition of the passing of all that was good, meanwhile nursing a flame for its eventual return. Either way it is the same: whether as presence or lack, the past shrouds the specificity of the present.
“The History of Subsumption,” Endnotes 2