"The anti-cruise is an attempt to imprison us. At every level of living it exists. Younger cruisers have asked me, "Why?" "Why is the anti-cruise so avaricious and constant in its attempt to stop the cruise? And I have no answer. There is no answer. I mean, it's gravitational, it's a relationship that's made up of reciprocals and pulling gravities. It simply exists. Where there is cruise there is an escort of anti-cruise. But even in a bastion of anti-cruise fodder... there is cruise. Somewhere in there is a sparkle of cruising energy. Deeply sublimated, within the bellowing belly of the beast. "
Other Timothy "Speed" Levitch:
Speedism: "Historical Inaccuracy is a lot of fun"
"I think a lot of the historical accuracy that people get caught up with is just more repression. For instance one of the most successful books about New York over the last years is the Encyclopedia of New York, which was written by historians who are really good about historical accuracy and knowing about what's considered to be historically accurate. Napoleon said that history is an agreed upon fiction and Malcolm McClaren said that history is getting the last word. One man ruled a country, the other perverted a country. But both men were aware that they were part of historical anecdotes as they were happening. I think they both had a very clear view of what history really is. In my mind history is the on-going attempt to convince ourselves that the past tense is more important than the present tense. So, historical inaccuracy can be a lot of fun because it's happening in the present tense. The most fun I've ever had has been in the present tense. And the only time I've actually shared with someone it's been in the present tense-that's the night club where it happened. It didn't happen in the past or in the future, the actual sharing of my life is taking place in this very special night club, a really fun place called the present tense."
Speedism: "Bitterness - the only form of the Black Plague that considers itself to be still winning."
There are other forms of Black Plague that had, in their prime, killed off a third of Europe’s population and that, today, know themselves to be inoculated and obsolete. In a convention of plagues, the most incessant respect goes to this form of plague that decided not to plague the human race by infecting our voluntary organs but, instead, chose to conquer us by way of our regrets.
Speedism: "Meant - everything unutterable uttered, not quite."
The worst violence of all is shy violence. The invisible, never spoken, emotional violence between us is the precise kind of violence all CNN Headlines ignore. The dramaturg reads into the subtext of the unfolding reality because that is where life’s greatest exclamations lie. This is why the theater director is constantly asking the actor, “What is your character’s motivation? Why is he or she saying this at this time?”
More Speedisms:
Identity-A profound opportunity
The Suburbs-Where those who do not want to be seen hang out with the blind.
Evolution is my favorite hobby.
An EGO - a lost cause.
MISCELLANEOUS - the shelf where all librarians agree to shelve our romance.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_%22Speed%22_Levitch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruise_%28documentary%29
youtube:
type in "The Cruise" and you can watch the whole thing ;)
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