Bedtime Story Conservatory 63 29/05/2020
Hello everyone,
Time has gone very quickly today, and it kind of feels like I've lost a lot of the minutes somehow. It would be nice if we could spend a day where a photo is taken every second of what we do without our knowing and then showed to us and only us on a big wall or in a film or something, no-one else was allowed to see but you so you wouldn't be able to feed off of what other people thought of what you did on that day, just yourself looking at yourself. Maybe i'm just describing memory in a very roundabout way, but i'm not sure, it would be like the other day, I was talking to myself in the mirror, as if I was having a conversation with myself to see what it would feel like, it felt good, you can say anything, this moment felt serene and had some sanctity in some way, and maybe that sanctity is being broken by simply telling you through email about that moment, I haven't kept it for myself, it is now outside of me, but maybe that doesn't matter, who knows.
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"there is something sinister about mirrors. Bioy Casares then recalled the observation of one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar, that the disturbing thing about mirrors and also the act of copulation, is that they multiply the number of human beings."
- p70, Rings of Saturn 1995, W.G. Sebald
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Keanu Reeves looking particularly dramatic in A Scanner Darkly 2006, a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's original book. The film was filmed with digital cameras, and then was animated over using 'Rotoshop', or the interpolated rotoscope technique, developed by Bob Sabiston.
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Today's reading is the first few paragraphs of A Scanner Darkly 1977 by Philip K. Dick. The book is semi-autobiographical, and portrays drug culture and use in a dystopian Orange County, California. Philip K. Dick was a prolific American sci-fi writer, who published many short stories and novels which mostly appeared in magazines. He is probably most famous for writing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968, the novel on which Blade Runner is based.
The book is based on a period of the author's life during the 1970's, in which he and his wife separated and he became hooked on amphetamines. The passage today follows one of the characters believing that himself and his surroundings are infested with small aphid like bugs.
The song attached to the beginning and end of the reading is Hallogallo 1972 by NEU!.
Links:
- Reading
- Google Drive folder of all readings
- Archive of all emails and readings
Warmest wishes, and lots of love,
Sam
