Zibaldone



An Occasional Miscellany

33.

This person — it’s only one part of their face, their mouth, their eyes, some other specific part, which is pixellated. Censored by & in the real world.

32.

‘The problem with the marginal is one, they have no understanding of nuance, and two, they have zero awareness that their dropout lifestyles are as much a part and product of the society we live in as any diligent careerists.’

— Iphgenia Baal, ‘Married to the Streets’

28.

‘You can love a city, you can recognise its houses and its streets in your remotest or dearest memories, but only in the hour of revolt is the city really felt as your own city’ — Furio Jesi, Spartakus

27.

‘The weeping spider is called Phoebe, he is a boy spider and he lives on the moon. The rest you will have to find out yourself.’

— Catherine Besterman, The Extraordinary Education of Johnny Longfoot