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Art about Valley View mall. (thread)

"To call it All Gall is Divided, as does its otherwise wonderful translator the late poet Richard Howard, constitutes an act of literary butchery, though I don’t think Cioran, himself something of a literary or philosophical butcher, a writer who spent much of his time in what might be called the abattoir of the spirit, would be much bothered." --Nathan Knapp via via @adamsorardor

Speke, Parrott. (an old review i wrote after the 2004 renovation)

Random # 109 = 214 in base-7; 2 + 1 + 4 = 7 lines

   "disaster coming"
a house made of these blonde planks
    like any others
you grow up in such a house
fossils of what came before
   staring out at you
from their places on the wall

The Affective and Hauntological Potential of Dead Mall Ruins. "We are all, in a way, dead mall enthusiasts and matsutake pickers – we all live in ruin, in the rubble of failed dreamworlds."