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All that pent up terror and rage
All that pent up terror and rage

Dodie Bellamy

Plague Widow

Driving to the Castro, Bee Reaved feels hyper emotional, as she often does in the car, Nick Cave’s Ghosteen on repeat, and she thinks—this is what it’s like to live without hope. Six months after Kevin’s death, friends left her to fare for herself. Other widows warned her this would happen, that everybody would disappear before she was ready. One widow she no longer talks to said, “Wait and see, you’re going to have a total breakdown.” Now, with the...
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Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

Externalized memory had always proceeded by contractions, summaries, reductions, selections, breaks in flow, as well as by organization, classification, boiling down. Card catalogues reduced thousands of works to a few key notions; tables of contents contracted the hundreds of pages in a given book. The sign itself was the first abbreviation of experience. An epic stitched of words was an abbreviation of the war, the long years of which were reduced to a few nights of recitation; the written text that recorded the epic was a contraction of the oral narration which pushed aside its sensory richness, melody, life in a thousand details. In accumulating, every level of abbreviation reconstituted an infinite flow, a new dilation that would be contracted in its turn. From the plurality of pages to the index and the table of contents; from the plurality of books to card catalogues.

The abbreviated elements were further arranged, situated...

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»Der beste Reporter, der je für den New Yorker schrieb«
»Der beste Reporter, der je für den New Yorker schrieb«

Joseph Mitchell

Mohawks im Stahlbau

Beim Bau von Stahlkonstruktionen, seien es Brücken oder Hochhäuser, lassen sich die Arbeiter in drei Hauptgruppen unterteilen – in Hebetrupps, Montagetrupps und Niettrupps. Der Stahl wird in fertigen, zu Säulen, Trägern und Profilen vorkonfektionierten Bauteilen auf die Baustelle geliefert; Säulen sind vertikale Bauteile, Träger und Profile horizontale. Jedes Bauteil verfügt an zwei oder mehr Stellen über Bohrungen zur Aufnahme der Bolzen und Niete und ist mit Kreide oder Farbe markiert, um anzuzeigen, an welcher Stelle es in dem Bauwerk einzusetzen ist....
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