If you're on trend in the entertainment industry, things happen quickly and easily and for almost no reason. If your creative process has integrity—your work isn’t pegged to trends and ideologies—it will be a little harder to explain to an executive why they should buy your ‘product.’ Or a lot harder, or impossible.
Last night after the play, S and I, along with a few of our friends, ate burgers and drank Fernet at an old pub on 19th and 7th, without air conditioning, at a big circular booth with green vinyl upholstery. The burgers were good and we were there past one, and even though our car uptown and home got snarled in traffic, we fell asleep content.
In Genesis 41:8, I discovered a passage that really helped me understand Freud's vast ambition.
And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me them, I pray you.
So around the year 1900, interpretations belonged to the psychoanalyst, to the secular seer, and not to God's prophets or priests—or to God directly.
Freud unconsciously modeled himself after Joseph in Genesis: Joseph who interprets the Pharaoh's dreams, (just as Freud interpreted the dreams of the rich bourgeois of the Austro-Hungarian empire).
One way of looking at 20th century America: a Donald Judd installation might nearly exactly resemble a chemical weapons depot in the desert.
Waiting swallows up doing.
I would like to forget that there's anything at all to wait for, to hope for, or to want.
It is very hard to get out of Kafka's castle, and to stop experiencing the world as a series of unending obstacles, gate-kept by bureaucracy. It is, but we aren't. If that makes sense. We aren't the obstacles, and we aren't the bureaucracy.
Who wondered, would polyamory discourse exist if New York City had whorehouses?