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Words for the Day… by Leonora Carrington

Published by Olly Blackburn

[Joan MirĂ³] gave me some money one day and told me to get him some cigarettes. I gave it back and said if he wanted cigarettes, he could bloody well get them himself.

Words for the Day… by William Burroughs

Published by Olly Blackburn

The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. — The Naked Lunch

On Method

Published by Olly Blackburn

This article grossly generalises ‘the Method’, which is probably not a helpful term to use these days. Lee Strasberg has radical differences to Stella Adler likewise both to Stanford Meisner… and these days actors are probably imbibing a bit from all regions of the ‘method’ (i.e. acting practices inspired by Stanislawski) universe. But it describes […]

Words for the Day… by Arthur Rimbaud

Published by Olly Blackburn

I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning myself into a seer. You won’t understand any of this, and I’m almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It […]

Words for the Day… by Italo Calvino

Published by Olly Blackburn

This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with […]