topological delillo @toposdelillo

space and image in the works of Don DeLillo, by @dwainecarver dwainecarver.com Joined April 2022

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

2 years ago

The night of the lawyers is approaching. #maoii

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

She sees Esmeralda’s face take shape under the rainbow of bounteous juice and above the little suburban lake and there is a sense of someone living in the image, an animating spirit—less than a tender second of life, less than half a second and the spot is dark again. #underworld

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

The world hum. #delillo #zerok

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

I used to look at an old photograph of my mother, Madeline in a pleated dress, age fifteen, and I’d feel sad. But she wasn’t ill, she hadn’t died. #zerok #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it. #zerok #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

Does technology have a death wish? #zerok #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

“We are at the mercy of our star,” she said. #zerok #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

I was afraid of other people’s houses. #zerok #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

Catastrophe is our bedtime story. #zerok #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

These were buildings in hiding, agoraphobically sealed. They were blind buildings, hushed and somber, invisibly windowed, designed to fold into themselves, I thought, when the movie reaches the point of digital collapse. #zerok #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

The speakers seemed to be directing their remarks somewhere beyond the assembled group. I assumed that there were recording devices, sound and image, outside my range of vision, and that this discussion was intended primarily for the archives. #zerok #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

Everybody wants to own the end of the world. #zerok #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

“Is there anything else you’d like to tell the camera?” “Simply hello. Hello to myself in the remote future, watching this in fear and darkness. Hello to that America, whatever it may be doing or undoing." #americana #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

“America can be saved only by what it’s trying to destroy,” Sullivan said. #americana #delillo

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

The camera implies meaning where no meaning exists. #americana

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

The camera dislikes evasiveness. #americana

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

Just give me something to play. An idea, a role, a masquerade. Something the camera will understand even if no one else does. #americana

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topological delillo @toposdelillo

3 years ago

I know you’re out there somewhere, all you prankish gunmen, pacing your scurvy rooms, making lists of likely targets with your Scriptomatic ballpoints, thinking incredibly in your wistfulness of the grandeur of state funerals. #americana