One is very much struck by how long one's sentences are. This, too, connected with horizontal extension and (probably) with laughter. The arcade is also a phenomenon of long horizontal extension, perhaps combined with vistas receding into distant, fleeting, tiny perspectives. The element of the diminutive would serve to link the idea of the arcade to laughter. (Compare the Trauerspiel book: miniaturizing power of reflection.)In other words, the byways of the Passagenwerk he was at this point commencing to write were filled with more than one flavor of smoke from the get-go. I suppose Lance Olsen is right to transpose the spirit of the Aracdes Project to a fictional take on the Mall of America. I'm trying to imagine what it would be like to browse the racks at Hot Topic with Walter.
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