He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
He didn't like to dwell on poverty, but in everything he wanted to show there were also the 4-Fs of the Japanese model. A world full of bums, of lumpens, of outcasts, of Koreans. Too broke to afford drugs, they'd get drunk on beer, on fermented milk. This morning in Namidabashi, twenty minutes from the glories of the center city, a character took his revenge on society by directing traffic at the crossroads
(Words by Chris Marker. Clip: music By Talk Talk , shot and edited by Pyke)
Finalmente hai pubblicato un tuo "svarione" d'autore: sarà mica che ci hai preso gusto a fare cose tue adesso?
ReplyDeleteTi devo fare i miei sentiti complimenti per la scelta dei Talk Talk: lo so benissimo, effettivamente è l'unica cosa che non hai fatto te!
Ma un giorno il mio vicino di scrivania, nonchè mio capo, mi raccontò di quando un suo professore londinese gli avesse spiegato l'importanza di poter scovare ciò che occore per soddisfare le nostre esigenze e necessità, frugando tra gli scaffali polverosi del sapere.
Quel mio vicino ha appreso bene la lezione.