Society has progressed past the need for joycian artworks about language. Society has progressed past the need for proustian artworks about time. I’ll never forget the first time I read Proust.
Let me forget it just once. They have duplicated the Empire State building. It is like a mirror (never forget). I see myself in it all. In the little pieces of hands, their soft synecdoche. Something to hold, but only from a distance.
The most beautiful thing is the afterglow on the walls — shades of blue and green. In another world I am in a field. In another world it is all so real. I’m sooooo real. The realist. They multiplied the empire state by 12 but it’s never the same. There are snakes that move like rivers and boats that do not move at all. I’d like you to forget it all. Total oblivion. How to induce amnesia? What are the effects of always having two forms of content on memory? Can’t eat without youtube. Can’t eat madeleines without Vision Pro.
They are burning a Piano. I see it all, through so many eyes. Through every screen I feel the heat of the bodies inside. I hope you never forget.
What if we severed the city at the seventh floor?
Teslas keep crashing themselves, but with thousands of cars on the road, you have to charge it to probability. Against human error, the number of men killed by mechanical means alone can be swallowed and overlooked entirely. It arrives at the same steely grave. When my grandmother died I watched her body filter through traffic on the way to the funeral. Everything was bigger than her. Everything contained everything.