The Arcades Project - Operi

Superposition accordiug to the rhythm of time. In relation to the ciuema and to
the "sensational" transmission of news. "Becoming" has for us-in regard to
rhythm, accordiug to our perception of tiule-no more claiu, as evidence. We
decompose it dialectically into Jensation and tradition.-Important to express
these thiugs analogously with respect to the biographical.
Parallelism between this work and the Trauenpiel book. Common to both, the
theme: theology of hell. A1legory advertisement, types: martyr, tyrantwhore,
speculator.
Hashish iu the aftemoon: shadows are a bridge over the river of light that is the
street.
Acquisition as decisive fact iu collectiug.
Art of primiug in readiug and writing. Whoever can design at the most super­
ficial level is the best author.
The best way, while dreaming, to catch the aftenlOon in the net of evening is to make
plans.
Comparison of the human beiug with an iustrument panel on which are thou­
sands of electric bulbs. Some of them go out at one moment, some at another,
come back on again.
The pathos of this work: there are no periods of decline. Attempt to see the nineteenth
century just as positively as I tried to see the seventeenth, in the work on Trauerspiel. No
belief in periods of decline. By the same token, every city is beautiful to me (from outside
its borders), just as all talk of particular languages' having greater or lesser value is to me
unacceptable.