In Days Gone By, We Were Afraid

The Desert Is A Natural Extension Of The Inner Silence Of The Body.

The Us ... Cultivates No Origin Or Mythical Authenticity; It Has No Past And No Founding Truth ... It Lives In A Perpetual Present. In The Us Everything Human Is Artificial. The Country Is Without Hope. What Is Arresting Here Is ... Both The Absence Of Architecture In The Cities And The Dizzying Absence Of Emotion And Character In The Faces And Bodies.

I Hesitate To Deposit Money In A Bank. I Am Afraid I Shall Never Dare To Take It Out Again

Here In The U.s., Culture Is Not That Delicious Panacea Which We Europeans Consume In A Sacramental Mental Space And Which Has Its Own Special Columns In The Newspapers - And In People's Minds. Culture Is Space, Speed, Cinema, Technology. This Culture Is Authentic, If Anything Can Be Said To Be Authentic.

Information Can Tell Us Everything. It Has All The Answers. But They Are Answers To Questions We Have Not Asked, And Which Doubtless Don't Even Arise.