Sunday, March 15, 2009

When you plan to begin as a critique, begin as all critiques began: with doubt. Let Doubt became our narrative. Let yours be a quest for a new story, your own. Grasp towards this new history, driven by the suspicion that ordinary language couldn't tell it. The past appears frozen in the distance, and every gesture and accent signified the negation of the old world and the reach for a new one. The way we, as human beings, have lived, and created a new situation, one of exuberance and friendship, that of a subversive community, in the heart of a society which ignored it.

The adventure of finding it and losing it. We are the unappeased, the unaccepting continued looking, filling in the silences with our own wishes, fears and fantasies. Driven forward by the fact that no matter how empty the world seemed, no matter how degraded and used up the world appeared to us, we know that anything was still possible. And, given the right circumstances, a new world was just as likely as an old one.

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