The Arcades Project - Operi

Notes on montage in my journal. Perhaps, in this same context, there should be
some indication of the intimate connection that between the intention
making for nearest nearness and the intensive utilization of refuse-a connection
in fact exhibited in montage.
Utter ambiguity of the arcades: street and house.
Traffic at the stage of myth. Industry at the stage of myth. (Raih'oad stations and
early factories.)
On the doll motif: "You have no idea how repulsive these automatons and dolls can
become, and how one breathes at last on encountering a full-blooded being in this society:'
Paul Lindau, Del' Abend (Berlin, 1896), p. 17.
111e modish green ,md red of recreation spots today, which corresponds ob­
scurely-as a fashion phenomenon-to the knowledge we are trying to unfold
here, has a capital interpretation in a passage by Bloch, where he speaks of "the
green-papered chamber of memory with curtains red as sunset;' Geist der Utopie
(Munich and Leipzig, 1918), p. 351.
The theory of not-yet-conscious knowing may be linked with the theory of forgetting
(notes on Der Blonde Eckbert)54 and applied to the collective in its various epochs. VVhat
Proust, as an individual, directly experienced (eJ"febte> in the phenomenon of remem-