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All the furniture is immense, fantastic, strange, armed with locks and secrets like all civilized souls.
Charles Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris, quoted in The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin (via notsoterriblymisanthropic)
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The essence of the mythical event is return.
Walter Benjamin, “The Arcades Project” (via jackphilip)
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The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons the flaneur as phantasmagoria - now a landscape, now a room.
Walter Benjamin, from Expose of 1935 (via veemignon)
NR. 113
“Die Stunden, welche die Gestalt enthalten,
Sind in dem Haus des Traumes abgelaufen.”-Walter Benjamin (Einbahnstraße)
(The hours, which contain the form*,
pass away** in the house of dreams.)
*Gestalt: complete, irreducible whole figure/self. There isn’t really an equivalent in English since we technically just borrow the German word.**abgelaufen: pass away, expire, finish, fall short
This made my day. Thanks Harvard University Press for following the Arcades Project!
“The alluring and threatening face of primal history is clearly manifest to us in the beginnings of technology, in the living arrangements of the nineteenth century; it has not yet shown itself in what lies nearer to us in time. But it is also more intense in technology that in other domains. That is the reason old photographs - but not old drawings - have a ghostly effect.”
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (393)
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