Hi Heiko:
actually the quote you cite here is from Nathaniel Hawthorne's
AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS--
refers to the mechanical effect of enlargement produced by lenses
used for a diorama--
idea being to juxtapose the "ravings" (or in french, "Delires") of
Rimbaud's "Alchemy of the Word"--produced with and without drugs--with
effects produced by mechanical means--
for distortions--shifts of perspectves, rearrangements via size
and scope of visual scene/seen
(for example, now we have "virtual reality"--a kind of mechanical
simulation of hallucination!)
meanwhile very early morning here am seeing things such as
green words aappearing and moving in black spaces--(computer screen)--and
hearing voices
from mouths not there (radio)
hallucination as daily dose of "reality"!--
--dave baptiste
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
> > thrust out his tongue. THE HEAD BECOMING GIGANTIC, A SINGULAR EFFECT WAS
> > PRODUCED.
> >
> > Arthur Rimbaud, A SEASON IN HELL, "Ravings II Alchemy of the
>
> Dope.
>
>
