continuing the random themes of forgetting, dislocation, anomie, dissociation, spontaneous rapture and so on, i'm reading coincidentally Amnesia, peter carey, and watching Performance, donald cammell and nic roeg, and though these themes will never be explicated fully they may be illuminated gloriously as in Performance. illuminated mystery. turner in performance has lost his demon, or daemon i suppose, but mick jagger is Beautiful, languid and smart. Amnesia seems to be about personal politics and nationalism and how america fucked australia which i was dark about and may be fiction, i mean it's fiction now, but there's something going on here there can be no denying and we know not what it is but keep returning like elephants, hominids and dogs to old bones.

performance, 1970.