PROGNOZ

BERLIN series, Portland

2007-01-21T04:17:00.000-08:00

PROLOG / PROGNOZ

2006-05-08T12:24:00.000-07:00

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)

wheatpaste graffiti

2006-05-08T12:02:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-07T15:39:00.000-07:00

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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2006-05-07T15:38:00.001-07:00

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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2006-05-07T15:38:00.000-07:00

IN AT THE KILLING Participer au dénouement

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2006-05-07T15:37:00.001-07:00

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

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2006-05-07T15:37:00.000-07:00

THE POOR IS ILLITERATE. THE POOR IS GRAFFITI.

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2006-05-07T15:36:00.000-07:00

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

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2006-05-07T15:35:00.000-07:00

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

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2006-05-07T15:34:00.000-07:00

PURE [Soho, London; commode graffito]

2006-05-07T15:33:00.000-07:00

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

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2006-05-07T15:32:00.001-07:00

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

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2006-05-07T15:32:00.000-07:00

DESOLATION COMES ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE

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2006-05-07T15:31:00.000-07:00

LET US CONSUMMATE THE DAWN

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2006-05-07T15:30:00.000-07:00

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

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2006-05-07T15:29:00.000-07:00

THE CATEGORICAL IS IMPERATIVE. THE COLLECTIVE IS UNCONSCIOUS.

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2006-05-07T15:28:00.001-07:00

AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A CROSS FOR EVERY CHRIST

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2006-05-07T15:28:00.000-07:00

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

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2006-05-07T15:27:00.000-07:00

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

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2006-05-07T15:26:00.000-07:00

I LOST MY WIFE TO A GEORGIA SHERIFF

2006-05-07T15:23:00.000-07:00

NARCOSIS = NARCISSUS, and Narcissism Is Incest

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2006-05-07T15:17:00.001-07:00

AGITPROP IS NARCOPROP

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2006-05-07T15:17:00.000-07:00

MAO WOULD KILL YOU

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2006-05-07T15:16:00.001-07:00

MINIMUM WAGE FOR FREED SLAVES

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2006-05-07T15:16:00.000-07:00

PROFESSORS FOR THE CHAIN GANG

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2006-05-07T15:15:00.001-07:00

LIQUOR FOR THE RESERVATIONS

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2006-05-07T15:15:00.000-07:00

GOD IS ROGUE

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2006-05-07T15:14:00.001-07:00

WHAT IS TRUTH—? [Pilate, to Jhesus]

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2006-05-07T15:14:00.000-07:00

WARFARE IS BIOLOGICAL

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2006-05-07T15:13:00.000-07:00

STILL-LIFE OF A COMA

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2006-05-07T15:12:00.000-07:00

THE CRIME BEING CONTEMPT

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2006-05-07T15:11:00.000-07:00

WALK YOUR SERMON THROUGH THE FIRE

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2006-05-07T15:06:00.000-07:00

ARMED TO BLESS [from a photograph by Sophia Amoruso, in a Russian Orthodox monastery in California]

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2006-05-07T15:05:00.001-07:00

CANAAN IS OURS

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2006-05-07T15:05:00.000-07:00

LIVE STRONG IN WAKEFUL LOVE

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2006-05-07T15:03:00.001-07:00

WHEN HEAVEN IS THE SWAMP YOU SINK IN AND ITS WATERS ARE DARK

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2006-05-07T15:03:00.000-07:00

WE ARE CLOUD AND BLOOD IN THE ENTRAILS OF GOD

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2006-05-07T14:58:00.000-07:00

Ce n’est pas une pipe—THIS IS A CRACK PIPE

[‘Ce n’est pas une pipe,’ after the Magritte painting of a pipe—‘This is not a pipe’]

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2006-05-07T14:41:00.000-07:00

REDISTRIBUTE POVERTY

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2006-05-07T14:40:00.001-07:00

ON THE NECESSITY OF EXCESSIVE FORCE;

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2006-05-07T14:40:00.000-07:00

SHE WAS A PREGNANT LUSH

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2006-05-07T14:39:00.000-07:00

MADONNA AND LOVE-CHILD

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2006-05-07T14:37:00.000-07:00

And let us not wait for the Protestant kingdom of heaven! [Richard Wagner; in a love letter, 1877]

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2006-05-07T14:36:00.000-07:00

AND JHESUS WEPT;

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2006-05-07T14:35:00.000-07:00

CANNON IS ALL

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2006-05-07T14:34:00.001-07:00

MAMMON IS THE ICON-SCREEN OF MOLOCH

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2006-05-07T14:34:00.000-07:00

FIND ME A BRUTUS

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2006-05-07T14:33:00.000-07:00

LOVE RESURRECTS THE LIVING

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2006-05-07T14:31:00.001-07:00

ESPERA CON ESPERANZA Wait—and with hope

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2006-05-07T14:31:00.000-07:00

Resaca mística [Spanish, ‘mystical hangover’; a play on Rosa mística, a Buenos Aires graffito]

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2006-05-07T14:30:00.000-07:00

ROMA AMOR [Latin; ‘Rome / Love’; a medieval palindrome]

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2006-05-07T14:29:00.000-07:00

EADEM MUTATA RESURGO I shall arise the same though changed

[Latin phrase—‘I arise again the same though changed,’ ‘I shall arise the same though changed,’ or ‘Though changed I rise unchanged’—inscribed below the logarithmic spiral (spira mirabilis) on the tombstone of Jakob Bernoulli; and adopted as a watchword by the Collège de ’pataphysique, founded in Paris on 11 May 1948]

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2006-05-07T14:05:00.000-07:00

I HAVE KILLED A MAN FOR WOUNDING ME

The children of our war;

2006-04-30T14:39:00.000-07:00

child affected inwomb by depleted uranium U.S. munitions. http://www.info-mission.org/ (Info Mission, Portland) /// http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/ /// http://www.ngwrc.org/ (National Gulf War Resource Center) ///

The children of our war;

2006-04-30T14:35:00.000-07:00

visible deformations caused inwomb by U.S. depleted uranium munitions. www.info-mission.org (Info Mission, Portland) /// http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/ /// http://www.ngwrc.org/ (National Gulf War Resource Center) /// http://www.nukewatch.com/

'Dying with his wings outspread;'

2006-04-30T14:28:00.000-07:00

; and occupation forces nailed him to a tree.