BERLIN series, Portland

PROLOG / PROGNOZ

The graffito form is ancient as the city of man; and illuminates, still, the mud walls of the Bolivian campo, the bullet-shattered walls of Baghdad, and the migrant outskirts of Paris. I post these texts here so others can select phrases at will—to write as graffiti; or to wed to images, print on sheets, and secure on walls with wheatpaste. Unless I have indicated a source in brackets, texts are mine. Should you reproduce a text, it is yours.

(David.vanDusen@gmail.com)

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AND A GIRL COLLAPSED AT THE GATES OF HELL, WITH WEEPING HANDS AND NARCOTIC PILLS [see Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautika, bk. 3, Medea's crisis of love]

BERLIN series

BERLIN, YOUR DANCER IS DEATH This is the only series that has been realized thus far. It was designed by Susie Nielsen (www.maskingfields.com). To receive this series for reprint and dissemination, contact me at David.vanDusen@gmail.com. [‘At that time [[c. 1922]], there was a poster around Berlin that read—Berlin, your dancer is death.’ Fritz Lang, in a 1964 interview for the German television programme Zum Beispiel Fritz Lang.]

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IN THE OPIUM DEN; then I lay down to a deepless, purchased sleep; I drank of liquor, laudanum, and cool information; I saw what I was shown, and never woke—and could not dream of waking

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IN AT THE KILLING Participer au dénouement

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O my friend, there are no friends! O my enemy, there are no enemies! [Aristotle; Nietzsche; Derrida]

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THE POOR IS ILLITERATE. THE POOR IS GRAFFITI.

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MY NAME BE ROSY MASTAH [Richmond, Virginia; commode graffito]

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1939 RETURNING [cheapside London; graffito prior to war on Iraq]

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PURE [Soho, London; commode graffito]

AMERICAN GULAG; a merger of IBM and Blackwater prisons is scheduled for December.

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NADIR SHAH [Shah of Iran; lived 1688–1747]

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DESOLATION COMES ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE

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LET US CONSUMMATE THE DAWN

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SHANTIH. SHANTIH. [Sanskrit, ‘profound peace’]

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THE CATEGORICAL IS IMPERATIVE. THE COLLECTIVE IS UNCONSCIOUS.

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AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A CROSS FOR EVERY CHRIST

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HUEY LONG GUNS FOR THE KHMER ROUGE—BATON ROUGE CELL.

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YOUR FATHERS KILLED NAT TURNER AND YOU WILL KILL HIS SONS.

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I LOST MY WIFE TO A GEORGIA SHERIFF

NARCOSIS = NARCISSUS, and Narcissism Is Incest

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AGITPROP IS NARCOPROP

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MAO WOULD KILL YOU

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MINIMUM WAGE FOR FREED SLAVES