
“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The Pall-Bearer's Revue (1992)
“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“The goons needed some comic relief, and I needed an audience. I had found my niche.”
When the Balls Drop https://books.google.com/books?idlLydBAAAQBAJ&pgPT0 (2015), Chapter 2, "Jews Don't Dribble."
“I wish there was an on & off switch for my brain. I think too fucking much.”
22 April 2014 https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/458559591698014208
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“People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.”
"Bobby Crawford"
Cocaine Nights (1996)
Context: Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past — no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
Malevich
Quote of Malevich, in his letter to Konstantin Rozhdestvenskii, 21 April, 1927, private archive, Moscow (transl. Todd Bludeau); as quoted by Vasilii Rakitin, in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1992, p. 27
1921 - 1930
“Everard sighed, switched off his conscience, and began lying.”
Delenda Est (p. 203)
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