6/29

a day slept away in depression — to say “no” to everything

a dead fetus and a pile of bird shit — swallow life

Bachelard quoting Lescure

“an artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.”—

(‘he’) — any statements on art seem to degenerate into cliche — how can one be an artist without being trite or seeming trite

rain — smell of sneakers — swamp smell of sewer plant

finished Durrell and Miller

reading intro the works of Lacan — the idea of margins

Foucault  in the margins of history
Derrida    in the margins of philosophy
Lacan      in the margins of language

Unamuno Three Exemplary Novels
intro p20
Contra esto y aquello (Against This and That)

not this - not that — no - contra

read intro to Bachelard - Lacan - Unamuno

topoanalysis — sites — memories
so many of my memories are associated with water
bodies of water — oceans to swamps

this place where I work covers many memories
Bachelard p8

“At times we think we know ourselves in time, when all we know is a sequence of fixations in the spaces of beings stability”

“at times” doesn’t this contradict itself — doesn’t it place one in times or temporal locations