“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
J.M. Coetzee book Summertime
Source: Summertime
“Inaudible melodies
Serve narrational strategies
Unobtrusive tones
Help to notice nothing but the zone
Of visual relevancy
Frame-lines tell me what to see
Chopping like an axe
Or maybe Eisenstein should just relax”
Inaudible Melodies.
Song lyrics, Brushfire Fairytales (2001)
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Serve narrational strategies
Unobtrusive tones
Help to notice nothing but the zone
Of visual rel…" by Jack Johnson (musician)?
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