THE SILENT FOOTAGE

"Just as any truly accurate representation of a particular geography can only exist on a scale of 1:1 (imagine the vast, rustling map of Burgundy, say, settling over it like a freshly-starched sheet!) so it is with all our abandoned histories, those ignoble lines of succession that end in neither triumph nor disaster, but merely plunge on into deeper and deeper obscurity; only in the infinite ghost-libraries of the imagination - their only possible analogue - can their ends be pursued, the dull and terrible facts finally authenticated." - Francois Aussemain, Pensees

Addenda - re: Tara Jane O'Neill:

"[W]e should bear in mind that the opposite of existence is not nonexistence, but insistence: that which does not exist, continues to insist, striving towards existence." - Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real!