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What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.Theodor W. Adorno
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Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland ‘firestorm’ of 1991? No need. There are already there, in my narratives that fail to mention them, in my dreams that fail to represent them.Robert Appelbaum