I like the antonyms to ‘rigorous’ they are a good fit for my research processes:
In my pursuit of writing around the afterlife of images I’ve been reading Elias Canetti’s The Human Province, I love its aphoristic style, and hope some of it will rub off on my writing. Here are two quotes I find interesting:
The object of archeology is a whole new kind of future. It is retrograde; every new step it takes into the past, every older grave it finds, become a piece of our future. The ever-older becomes what lies ahead of us. An unexpected discovery could change our own, still uncertain destiny.
(Canetti, 1978:159)
At the funeral, the coffin went astray. The mourners were hastily shovelled into the grave. The corpse suddenly emerged from ambush and threw a handful of earth after everyone into his grave.
(Canetti, 1978: 261)
I’ve been frantically entering one of my films ‘Incunabulum’ to various film festivals in the vain hope someone will say they like it.
