retentionalfinitude2: “[For Walter Benjamin] the deep transactions between the melancholic and
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retentionalfinitude2: “[For Walter Benjamin] the deep transactions between the melancholic and the world always take place with things (rather than with people); and that these are genuine transactions, which reveal meaning. Precisely because the melancholy character is haunted by death, it is melancholics who best know how to read the world. Or, rather, it is the world which yields itself to the melancholic’s scrutiny, as it does to no one else’s. The more lifeless things are, the more potent and ingenious can be the mind which contemplates them.” –Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn -- source link
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