If aura-maxxing is a crime, I guess you’d better lock ‘imi up and throw away the key, but then don’t be a weak-willed Orpheus who looks backs longingly only to too-late realise that the “evil” deviantic networks he so feared actually had his (or at least humanity’s…) best interests at heart.ii
At the end of the day, Apollo is really just Dionysis drinking wine to forget the cross he carries.
- “With respect…”
- No Lansky, no Chaum, no Bitcoin ;
No Epstein, no Minsky, no AI ;
No Selig, no silly, no wisdom:The fact that the Hook never touches the Bachelor Apparatus is analogous to its symbology as a vessel of unfulfilled hope. (There can be little doubt that Duchamp took the Fool as a personal device. In German, selig-related to ‘silly’-means holy or blessed ; thus holiness and foolishness have been traditionally paired with one another. The Hebrew word for `silly’ [spelled Aleph-Vau-Yod-Lamed] connects the key of the Fool [Aleph] with the spiritual illumination of the Hanged Man [Lamed] by way of the fifth arcanum [Vau], representingthe revelation of sacred things, and the ninth arcanum [Yod], the unconscious personification of the Fool’s state. Hence a Fool is also someone of extraordinary powers and occult insight who hides his wisdom through ridiculous acts.)
via Jack Burnham’s analysis of Duchamp’s The Large Glass (collected by the Arensbergs, of course). ↩