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the MINUTE i’m finished all my work i’m watching pride and prejudice 2005 you cannot stop me

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A psychoanalyst might say that the landscape displayed "homosexual tendencies," but I will not draw such a crass anthropomorphic conclusion. I will merely say, "It was there." Across the river in Rutherford one could hear the faint voice of a P.A. system and the weak cheers of a crowd at a football game. Actually, the landscape was no landscape but "a particular kind of heliotypy" (Nabakov), a kind of self-destroying postcard world of failed immortality and impressive grandeur. I had been wandering in a moving picture that I couldn't quite picture, but just as I became perplexed, I saw a green sign that explained everything: YOUR HIGHWAY TAXES 21 AT WORK FEDERAL HIGHWAY TRUST FUNDS 2,867,000 U.S DEPT. OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS STATE HIGHWAY FUNDS 2,867,000 NEW JERSEY STATE HIGHWAY DEPT.

That zero panorama seemed to contain ruins in reverse, that is--all the new construction that would eventually be built. This is the opposite of the “romantic ruin” because the buildings don’t fall into ruin after they are built but rather rise into ruin before they are built. This anti-romantic mise-en-scene suggests the discredited idea of time and many other “out of date” things. But the suburbs exist without a rational past and without the “big events” of history. Oh, maybe there are a few statues, a legend, and a couple of curios, but no past--just what passes for a future. A Utopia minus a bottom, a place where the machines are idle, and the sun has turned to glass, and a place where the Passaic Concrete Plant (253 River Drive) does a good business in STONE, BITUMINOUS, SAND, and CEMENT.

Passaic seems full of “holes” compared to New York City, which seems tightly packed and solid, and those holes in a sense are the monumental vacancies that define, without trying, the memory-traces of an abandoned set of futures.

https://monoskop.org/images/8/85/Smithson_Robert_1967_1979_The_Monuments_of_Passaic.pdf

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