Activity

a shearing away from our shared reality and a turn towards an interim state that might lead to a florid psychosis

What had formerly been a sedative, a tranquilizing soporific, had morphed into a facilitator of reflection

they wanted to destroy reality and themselves – and to rediscover, in the process, some sense of chivalry and nobility – and therefore they embraced the trenchant power of radical Islam.

Inside, the nature of local preoccupations is writ large upon the walls

Where so many people are poor and without private transport, the RER is the only way to come and go – and it has acquired a lugubrious grip over all existence