Abnormal Receptor System

It’s that time of the year.

“The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.”

_Simone de Beauvoir, The mandarins.

Nothing is as it seems.

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Third man.

1949

Dir Carol Reed

based on a story by Graham Green and Alexander Korda.

"Life is brief

Fall in love maidens,

Before the crimson bloom

Fades from your lips

Before the tides of passion

Cool within you

For thoso of your

“Why can't we in the garden play?

The servants stare then look away

Why has the hall clock suddenly stopped?

Reading Bulgákov’s Master and Margarita.

“In the early days, when they thought this epidemic was much like other epidemics, religion held its ground. But once these people realized their instant peril, they gave their thoughts to pleasure. And all the hideous fears that stamp their faces in the daytime are transformed in the fiery, dusty nightfall into a sort of hectic exaltation, an unkempt freedom fevering in their blood.”

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“I exploded a bundle of stimuli on the world... for me the only important things were attack, tragic or comic climax, subsidence, nothing more. Because I didn’t like solid citizens, I danced whom they despise- whores, procuresses, down-and-outers, and degenerates.”