The Trees That Miss The Mammoths

"Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world."

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The Trillion Dollar “Death Economy”: You Will Definitely Participate

"American consumers currently spend $20 billion/year on funerals, $195 billion/year on trusts and estates, $294 billion/year on elder care, and $616 billion/year on life/health insurance premiums — that’s over a trillion dollars in the US total."

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Bob Dylan - Tangled up in Blue, live, 07/06/78



Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm, live, 1976



Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman, Knockin On Heaven's Door, live, 1975

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Jean held her head in her hands.
Lucjan sighed. He pulled her toward him.
- Everything we do is false consolation, said Lucjan. Or to put it another way, any consolation is true.

-- Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault, p. 235.

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the living haunt us in ways the dead cannot

-- Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault, p. 159.

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Some Colombian art:


Holy Trinity by Gregorio Vázquez de Arce y Ceballos, oil on canvas, 17th century [!]



Painting of a Contrabass by Alvaro Valbuena, 1970

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Teachers already know that errors or falsehoods are rarely found in homework (except in those exercises where a fixed result must be produced, or propositions must be translated one by one). Rather, what is more frequently found -- and worse -- are nonsensical sentences, remarks without interest or importance, banalities mistaken for profundities, ordinary 'points' confused with singular points, badly posed or distorted problems -- all heavy with dangers, yet the fate of us all.

-- from Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze, p 153

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