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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 10h

"Moments for nothing, now as always, time was never and time is over, reckoning closed and story ended." Samuel Beckett, Endgame, 1958. 🎥 Michael Gambon as Hamm in Conor McPherson's Endgame, 2000.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“You must watch, my dear, and pray. It is the only way to be a scholar, to watch and to pray.” Muriel Spark, Memento Mori, 1959.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Favourite films watched in September: -The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003) -Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940) -Desperate Living (John Waters, 1977) -The Driver's Seat (Identikit) (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1974) -L'Éden et après (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1970)

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Hello? What number are you calling? You've dialed the wrong number! Sorry? What good is that? How can you ever repay the 30 seconds you have stolen from my life? I hate you, your husband, your children, and your relatives!" 🎥 Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) in John Waters's Desperate Living (1977).

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ali Catterall & Jane Giles, Scala!!! or, The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits, 2023. [Trailer] youtu.be/jovQuVxS2hk?...

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Scala!!! (Official Film Trailer)

YouTube video by Barry Adamson

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The movie house is in an underlit neighborhood of dilapidated saloons and bathhouses, solitary men with appetites open to question hugging what scraps of urban shadow they can find ... a neon marquee in the fog, radiant tubing hung in midair reading mozik.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Women are suspicious if you treat them like humans." "I'm not a human. I'm a maid." [...] "All women want to be goddesses. The minute they're just women, they die of boredom." 🎥 Stellan von Pahlen (Jan Malmsjö) and Agda Frideborg (Harriet Andersson) in Mai Zetterling's Loving Couples (1964).

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Could it be that we were not the twelve maids, but the twelve maidens? The twelve moon-maidens, companions of Artemis, virginal but deadly goddess of the moon? Could it be that we were ritual sacrifices, devoted priestesses doing our part, first by indulging in orgiastic fertility-rite behaviour

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🖼️ Paul Delvaux, Le chœur, 1983.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Showing initiative, Telemachus insisted, “I refuse to grant these girls a clean death, since they poured down shame on me and Mother, when they lay beside the suitors.” At that, he wound a piece of sailor’s rope round the rotunda and round the mighty pillar,

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🎥 Julie Hart (Tilda Swinton) reading Rudyard Kipling's 'They' (Traffics and Discoveries, 1904) in Joanna Hogg's The Eternal Daughter (2022).

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Every time I kill someone in battle I try to think of them as a rival for your affection." 🎥 Lt. John Boles (Kyle McCulloch) and Veronkha (Kathy Marykuca) in Guy Maddin's Archangel (1990).

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"To prevent the suffocating fits which the journey might bring on, the doctor had advised me to take a stiff dose of beer or brandy at the moment of departure, so as to begin the journey in a state of what he called “euphoria,” in which the nervous system is for a time less vulnerable. [...]

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"[...] at least in trains they don’t threaten you with a thousand deaths if you smoke in the toilets, it’s one of the rare advantages for offenders like me, you can smoke sitting down, which has become a luxury these days,

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘[…] I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the after-life. You are safer when they don't. I've been told the Scandinavian airlines are fairly reliable in that respect.' Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat, 1970. 🎥 Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Identikit, 1974.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

„Melvilles Grab ist schlicht, fast ärmlich, das Grab des vergessenen Schriftstellers, der er im Augenblick seines Todes war. In diesen patriotischen Tagen hat jemand ein kleines amerikanisches Fähnchen daran aufgehängt.“ Cees Nooteboom, Tumbas, 2006. [Übs. Andreas Ecke]

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?" Herman Melville, Moby Dick or The Whale, 1851.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎥 Louis (Leslie Cheung) leafing through Hubert Damisch and Henry Martin's [Valerio] Adami (Maeght, 1974) in Patrick Tam's Nomad (1982).

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"[...] boredom is destroying him. He has done everything to escape it, but he always falls back into the grim clutches of the monster which is crushing him. He escapes it by being ceaselessly preoccupied with himself and his person, but this excessive egoism has made him so sensitive to the least

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

📷 Claude Monet, Sommer, 1874.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

« Montaigne : Les lettrés depuis l’Antiquité pillent et butinent les livres comme font les abeilles des fleurs qui couvrent les champs. » Pascal Quignard, Mourir de penser, 2014.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🖼️ James Ensor, Demons Teasing Me, 1895.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Why does one behave like this, why? he asked himself [...] Why does one do these things? he thought, never defining, however, exactly what things. How did it start, at what point in one’s life does one find oneself doing things like this?" Muriel Spark, Memento Mori, 1959.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🖼️ Horst Janssen, Alter Mann träumt Landschaft, 1988. [Farbradierung]

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"We all have wicked dreams, don't we? And unless we bring one of our wicked dreams just a wee bit to life we live like zombies […]" Alasdair Gray, Something Leather, 1990.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🎥 Elizabeth Taylor as Lise in Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's Identikit (1974). [Adaptation of Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat (1970)]

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

« Tout dénudement fait signe vers un dénudement plus intime encore, peut-être sans fond ou inatteignable. » ["All denudation is the index of an even more intimate denudation, perhaps bottomless or unattainable.”] Jean-Luc Nancy, Sexistence, 2017. [Tr. Steven Miller]

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🖼️ Paul Delvaux, Nuit sur la mer, 1976.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Es mar la noche negra; la nube es una concha; la luna es una perla… José Juan Tablada, "La luna", Un día... Poemas sintéticos, 1919.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📷 Claude Monet, Der Hafen von Le Havre am Abend, 1872.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“[...] abajo se ahondaban los reflejos vidriosos del puerto. Hablar: también como un reflejo en el agua, no aún como una huella en la arena, mirando aún el presente y no el pasado, [+]

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📷 Christian Rohlfs, Die Sternbrücke in Weimar, 1892.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain." James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room, 1956.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🖼️ Joe Coleman, The Nuclear Family, 1984.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

„Nicht das Verbrechen beunruhigt die Menschenwelt: das Urteil der vielen, die alles besser wissen als der einzelne – die die gesicherten Normen, den Fleiß, das schöne Bild der Familie, den Pilgerzug der Generationen, Schuld und Sühne, Saat und Ernte so meisterhaft

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📷 Francisco de Goya, Grande hazaña! Con muertos! [An Heroic Feat! With Dead Men!] [Desastres de la guerra (estampas y dibujos, 1810-1815)] fundaciongoyaenaragon.es/obra/grande-...

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

« Watteau, ce carnaval où bien des coeurs illustres, Comme des papillons, errent en flamboyant, Décors frais et légers éclairés par des lustres Qui versent la folie à ce bal tournoyant;

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🎥 James Wilby as John Locke in Alain Robbe-Grillet's Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle) (2006).

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

« […] comment ne pas remarquer l'insistance mise par le peintre dans la représentation de ce pied à la démarche étrange, immortalisé au XXe siècle par Freud ? Le talon si relevé que la voûte plantaire devient presque perpendiculaire au sol... 🎥 Alain Robbe-Grillet, Gradiva, 2006.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Art should not be comforting; for comfort we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions." Joyce Carol Oates 🎥 Stig Björkman, Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, 2021. [Trailer] youtu.be/pe7yY7Ny0qE?...

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Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Greenwich Entertainment

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Most often Daddy and daughter spend their rigidly allotted hours together at harmlessly banal G-rated movies at the mall, for Daddy can’t take the chance of even a PG-rated movie that might embarrass his sensitive, puritanical daughter, or himself [...]" Joyce Carol Oates, Fox, 2025.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"They staged playlettes with themes that for the most part had to do partly with defeat, hell on earth, the end of humanity, and partly with the most effective ways to transform defeat into resounding victory.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🖼️ Jeanne Mammen, Bühnenbild Badewanne: Odysseus und die Sirenen, um 1949.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"He’d made his men put wax in their ears, said one, while sailing past the alluring Sirens – half-bird, half-woman – who enticed men to their island and then ate them, though he’d tied himself to the mast so he could listen to their irresistible singing without jumping overboard.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📷 Lovis Corinth, Garten in Berlin-Westend, 1925.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Doctor Plarr had never caught anyone else reading in the whole city. […] People when they first saw him sitting on a bench with an open book had looked at him with keen curiosity. Perhaps they thought it was a custom peculiar to foreign doctors. It was not exactly unmanly,

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📷 Max Liebermann, Biergarten „De Oude Vink“ bei Leiden, 1905.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🖼️ Ernst Fuchs, Toteninsel, 1972.

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John Wynberg @johnwynberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Everything summons us to death; nature, as if envious of the good she had done us, announces to us often and reminds us that she cannot leave us for long that bit of matter she lends us, which must not remain in the same hands, and which must eternally be in circulation: [+]

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