“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.”

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

A stupid tweet by a nobody, meant as a parody, somehow goes viral and the internet offers up death threats.

Now this spectral city will become the site for execrations and lamentations, now time itself will disintegrate and void itself…

We rehearsed the crowd scenes in the Winter Palace, in the Throne Room and the Armorial Hall.

In another era, the mish-mash presentation of Africa would have been the focal point of criticism. But this is not the age for facts.

Philosophy is found wanting. It is considered anachronistic, some say dead. The tradition is in ruins.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s closeness to fascism has put him in a dubious light. Barbara Basting tells of her personal fascination with futurism and her dehabituation from its aura and central figure.