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Designed by Trish Wilkinson Set in Consists of articles and essays mainly written between and ISBN alk. NU86 '. We live in the wreckage of a century I lived through the second half of, a century of false messiahs, twisted ideologies, shipwrecked hopes, pathetic answers. This is a modest and extremely unrealistic project.
If many of the works and artists examined in these pages heighten a tonic sense of life, more often they have instilled an acute and not entirely uncomfortable reminder of my own mortality, the ephemeral nature of consciousness, and represent the struggle of individuals to wrest from their brief time of existence something of value.
Gary Indiana May text. T xi text. Where or how, nobody knows any longer. But the fact remains. War of crimes and insults, of hate-filled eyes, of thoughts exploding from skulls. Each second, as it rolls on, it uproots all things in its path, reduces them to dust. It strikes indiscriminately with its bristling array of hooks, claws, beaks.
