But isn't Kennedy already dead?

Captain Webster studied the documents laid out on Dr. Lancaster's demonstration table. These were:

(1) a spectroheliogram of the sun;

(2) tarmac and takeoff checks for the B29 Superfortress Enola Gay;

(3) electroencephalogram of Albert Einstein;

(4) transverse section through a Pre-Cambrian Trilobite;

(5) photograph taken at noon, August 6, 1945, of the sand-sea, Qattara Depression, Libya;

(6) Max Ernst's "Garden Airplane Traps".

as flowers turn towards the sun

transfer print / 48" x 24" / 2011 As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history. An historical materialist must be aware of this most inconspicuous of all transformations. benjamin / on the concept of history

desert war

The four twisted blades, veined and frosted like the wings of a giant dragonfly, had already been overgrown by the trellises of crystals hanging downwards from the near-by trees. The fuselage of the craft, partly buried in the ground, had blossomed into an enormous translucent jewel, in whose solid depths, like emblematic knights mounted in the base of a medieval ring-stone, the two pilots sat frozen at their controls. Their silver helmets gave off an endless fountain of light.

Ballard / The Crystal World / 120

in deserto / evacuation

Fixed Point Theorem / Feedback
British evacuate Benghazi / 3 April 1941

The indelible colour comes from the non-existent. Thought is its servant, a piece of existence extending - however negatively - to that which it is not. Only the utmost distance would be proximity; philosophy is the prism in which its colour is caught.

Adorno / Negative Dialectics / 57