“I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.” ThinkingWayLightPoliticalPleasureSilenceSkyColorStormBridgesStreamsTails Author:Ben Lerner
“Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.” PeoplePersonsDreamLightMovingCausesHalfTechnologyPiecesCuttingAliveFineStandingRemainsAssumingAncientThroatFulfilledBladesPostureAlterationsLasersSlitsPainless Book:No Art: Poems Source: No Art: Poems
“What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.” StoriesLightInterestFictionTearsEdgesRealismFabric Author:Ben Lerner
