Philosophie des Als Ob

Baseball team.  New Britain, Connecticut.  Around 1908.

Gabriele D’Annunzio.

T.S. Eliot reads “The Waste Land.”  Following the better craftsman.

Pasolini interviews Giuseppe Ungaretti about “normal” and “abnormal” sexuality.  Ungaretti says we are all against nature, no one more than another. He says he is a poet, so he begins always by transgressing.

Walter Benjamin collection.  Going to work on thinking about collection and commodity. Benjamin holds that collections take objects out of usefulness.  He also compares the collector to the allegorist.  But aren’t allegories useful?

From Pasolini’s Il Vangelo secondo Matteo