Happy Birthday Massimo Vignelli
Say “cheese,” birthday boys.
“I just want to die gracefully.”
“Is there a lot of fear wrapped up in that desire?”
“Of course there is. Facing the inevitable physical decline, not knowing what’s ahead. Hospital visits, chemotherapy, it’s all very scary. Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion, and it springs from the unknown. What was that T.S. Eliot quote, something about “interstellar spaces…”
———————————From East Coker,
by T.S. Eliot"O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark.”
ALL.
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“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
Yes, I was just officially fingerprinted.
I whoops my bangz back n’ forth.
—Dorn
This.
Mo Mo Mo!
—Dorn
SUBMISSION:
Gun Roze | 4th Ave Station-Brooklyn | August 2013
Veins
—Dorn
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(pre-dating the vehicle by 25 years or so)
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