THE APARTMENT

Miel 发表于 2006-04-20 01:58:20

"I put a picture up on a wall. Then I forget there is a wall. I no
longer know what there is behind this wall, I no longer know
there is a wall, I no longer know this wall is a wall, I no longer
know what a wall is. I no longer know that in my apartment there
are walls, and that if there weren't any walls, there would be no
apartment. The wall is no longer what delimits and defines the
place where i live, that which separates it from the other places
where other people live, it is nothing more than a support for the
picture. But I also forget the picture, I no longer look at it, I no
longer know how to look at it. I have put the picture on the wall
so as to forget there was a wall, but in forgetting the wall, I forget
the picture, too. There are pictures because there are walls. We
have to be able to forget there was walls, and have found no better
way to do that than pictures. Pictures efface walls. But walls kill
pictures. So we need continually to be changing, either on the wall
or the picture, to be forever putting other pictures up on the walls,
or else constantly moving the picture from one wall to another."

-THE APARTMENT, Georges Perec