Saturday, October 27, 2007

THE DARKNESS OF SATURN

“… He tied the end of the thread round his ankle and set off into the darkness …”
Jose Saramago (1997) All the Names, p.244

‘Saturno’ in the Summer Gardens, St Petersburg, June 2007 (eating one of his children…)

“I came into the world under the sign of Saturn — the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays …”
Walter Benjamin (in Susan Sontag’s Under the Sign of Saturn, p.111)


‘Melancholia’ at Pavlosky Park, Russia, June 2007

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