Sans Titre: Pareillement

Symptom: paris-London-Woking-Wokingham-Reading-London-Pisa-Firenze-Chiusi-Moggiano-Chiusi-Firenze
-Pisa-Paris-Chicago.
Cure: conversation. wit. humor. tenderness.

What is in your chest? On having half a heart

Symptom: you have la mauvaise habitude de tenir spontanément le bras de quelqu'un--même un inconnu. Tu as trop faim et pourtant il arrive souvent que tu ne reçois pas ce que tu avais commandé mais quelquechose à laquelle tu es allergique.

Cure: Run, don't walk, away. Plunge yourself in any body of water and pronounce the following words of Georges Bataille as MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE (hold the position until you rigole ---for the best result, do this each day until you arrive in an empty apartment in a foreign country):

"Le coeur est humain dans la mesure où il se révolte."
"L'acte sexuel est dans le temps ce que le tigre est dans l'espace." (La Part maudite)
"J’enseigne l’art de tourner l’angoisse en délice." (La Somme athéologique)

Emergency architecture

Symptom: longing and the necessity of detatchment have become inexorablement liés--which is potentially the experience of some kind of nostalgia. The impulse to draw near is framed by time-space bubbles (le travail contre le sommeil; les deux jours de plus contre le nouveau départ; le désire contre la logique ) qui possèdent le poid des murs anciens. Basically, an excess of energy has transformed into the effervescence of life (G. Bataille), and although nothing can be said you néanmoins feel like saying "I see. Do you?"

Cure: go to the quais and stroll the lines of plants. Listen to what they say. Wait for one to speak to you à travers sa forme et achète-la. Place this plant beside your work station and ask yourself the following questions: Did I ever fly as a child, dans l'escalier? What is truly possible? Why me? What is the most interesting path? What is risk? and finally: utilises trois mots afin de décrire la surface d'une expérience récamment vécue/recently touched.

Late night phone calls and changes in plans

Symptom: loss and reconfiguration; villas now accompany le deuil. A change of attire is required.
Cure: become your brother or your sister for one hour and hold your own hand. Set your watch for a foreign time zone. Be thankful.

For Mr. S.

chicken soup

Symptom: doctorwild will be on holiday to le 2 aout.
Cure: remake your favorite movies; wear kaftans only; imagine an un-haunted villa in Tuscany occupied by 3 or 4 tarés: See Its a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world and then do a little dance.

Cleaning the slates

Symptom: the place is just fine as long as you are there. You begin to study the meaning of the flight of birds.
Cure: put on those stained pants and mop the walls: enlevez les dégats and bouchez the holes. Know that you have left your trace otherwise.

How to faire une fugue: for Pedrito

Symptom: during the time of an impending departure, you find things while giving things. This provides a prickly layer; plants may sprout legs.
Cure: continue giving and taking gracefully. Rent public bicycles and dance, dance, dance. Speak Spanish.

just incase if sometime whatever

Symptom: your hair has grey-ed prematurely, but it suits you; you find yourself playing roles that you do not recognize. Tu devrais sentir coupable (ou faché/e) mais en fait.....Les nouveaux rencontres sont assez interessants.

Cure: Run, don't walk, to your nearest green park. Look at the clouds and construct buildings. When in doubt, eat in restaurants and order exactly what your heart desires. Finally, take long baths while reading classic American literature; évite Godard and plonge-toi dans un cinéma étranger.

Up with plain janes

Symptom: Soap and fruit se resemblent. You wonder what your shrink is really doing when you lie there.
Cure: Put all of your possessions on a slow barge and give sweaty men cool water.

GO

Symptom: STOP
Cure: GO, GO, GO.

Note: for maximum effectiveness, attend or host brunches that last a minimum of seven hours. Four dear people required.

With scant attention to detail

Symptom: passages, transitions, no-man's land and definitive barriers.
Cure: strap children to the back of your bicycle and wear some-one else's glasses. Recall that all doors are infact vestibules. Try not to stand any one up.

A picture of you and me

Symptom: real and virtual echo too often. You mistake cats for dogs and time for emotions.
Cure: do not respond to messages to which you cannot be honest; do not respond to messages that request you to perform in a way that suits only the message sender. Find a basket and a coat and go to the market.

More on hair and the heart: both break

Insuring appropriate coverage

Symptom: doff, don; re-doff, re-don; double re-doffing; triple dog-dare re-re-donning.
Cure: Consult John Freyer's "All my life for sale." Do not accept boxes that have been wet from the rain.

Pour Pierre: urgent

remember that your hair is now somewhere in hair heaven. You never did simply leave it in a box on the side of the road, and for this, you should be thankful. Up there, an angel is dancing wildly with your former locks that have now grown down to her waist. She plays the air guitar like a virtuoso thanks to you, and only you.

How to be vain, subtly

Symptom: a ringing sensation in your ear that resembles a horse-shoe clang around the pole; you wish it was always independence day.
Cure: load up your truck and drive south; recall that all forms have a sister image in play and in nature (see previous posts). Search for Telly Sevalas images on the web and invest in the candy industry.

Hair matters

Symptom: "my hair is thick." "I need a new style." "I have a lot of it." "I need a change."
Cure: See a suite of Marx Brothers movies. Harpo's hair and silence will work out the issues. Honk. If this doesn't work, consult Gerhard Richter.

Unchained melodies

Symptom: addiction to certain objects, songs; the periphery of daily living has a strange rhythm. People are missing from you.
Cure: See Wim Wender's The State of Things once a week for a month. Add doses of Chaplin's The Immigrant, followed by Sunnyside when needed.

When July feels like November

Symptom: a problem with verb tenses; the belief that you may have the ability to occupy multiple points of view.
Cure: acceptance and a new coat. Wear more clothing that is made for the opposite sex.

Heartbreak or failing the Rorschach tests

Symptom: Your best friend drives off in a taxi en route to live in another country.
Cure: Space travel and that branch in the courtyard that you realize has grown closer to your apartment window.

Ici is here

Symptom: the cast of characters is transforming; some colors seem too bright.
Cure: None.

Condensation or how to survive a 48 hour trans-Atlantic voyage

Symptom: continental drift; radical juxtaposition of space and time
Cure: find similarities in the most disparate things; concentrate on the big picture; do not despair. Remember that scale is key and that hydration works wonders.