Monday, May 16, 2005

Antonin Artaud: "How hard it is, when everything encourages us to sleep..."

How hard it is, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned in¬ward. (11)

Antonin Artaud--The Theater and Its Double (NY: Grove Press, 1958)

2 comments:

Michael said...

Which Bauhaus? All that is reverberating in my head is "Bel Lugosi is Dead" and "Telegram Sam"?

Michael said...

Thanks Mason... I'll have to look for that one...