#decline and fall

[yeats-infection]

some malkmus / pavement screengrabs from 1992-4

frankfurt 1994 - reading 1992 - australia 1993 - london 1992 - rennes 1992 - bielefeld 1992

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Anguish over the decline of civilisation is the affliction of a conservative. The leftist cannot lament the disappearance of something of which he is ignorant.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Ruins at Agrigento, Sicily, 1986.

[bonewhiteglory]

Playing With Fire - Godflesh

[tilbageidanmark]

The saddest book collection in the library.

[heatdeathnews]

In the latest edition of Decline and Fall, we dig into the disintegrating politics of the terminal Republic, the nature of coups and purges, the boogeyman of American Empire, failure as a natural part of history, and what – precisely – it takes to make someone participate in an atrocity.

You can read the free edition – which is around 4,000 words – right here!

[duststooooorm]

this is fixing me

[sixohsixoheightfourtwo]

"Life is like the big wheel at Luna Park. You pay five francs and go into a room with tiers of seats all around, and in the centre the floor is made of a great disc of polished wood that revolves quickly. At first you sit down and watch the others. They are all trying to sit in the wheel, and they keep getting flung off, and that makes them laugh too. It's great fun. You see, the nearer you can get to the hub of the wheel the slower it is moving and the easier it is to stay on. There's generally someone in the centre who stands up and sometimes does a sort of dance. Often he's paid by the management, though, or, at any rate, he's allowed in free. Of course at the very centre there's a point completely at rest, if one could only find it; I'm not very near that point myself. Of course the professional men get in the way. Lots of people just enjoy scrambling on and being whisked off and scrambling on again. How they all shriek and giggle! Then there are others, like Margot, who sit as far out as they can and hold on for dear life and enjoy that. But the whole point about the wheel is that you needn't get on it at all, if you don't want to. People get hold of ideas about life, and that makes them think they've got to join in the game, even if they don't enjoy it. It doesn't suit everyone... Now you're a person who was clearly meant to stay in the seats and sit still and if you get bored watch the others. Somehow you got on to the wheel, and you got thrown off again at once with a hard bump."

evelyn waugh, decline and fall, 1928

[adnotocram]

Kinda dig the whole post apocalyptic Roman Empire destroyed aesthetic, overgrown ruins n all that shit

[kraftwerk113]

Life´s too short for weird music Tagesempfehlung 30.08.2024

Manic Street Preachers / Decline and Fall

Und ja auch die Manic Street Preachers haben fast vier Jahre nach Resistance is futile ein neues Album in der Pipline. Aus dem für Anfang 2025 angekündigten Critical Thinking kommt als erster Spoiler nun Decline and fall. Ganz ehrlich: so richtig einzuordnen kann ich den Song noch nicht – machen Sie sich selbst ein Bild.

[yeats-infection]

assorted materials for the cranberries' third album to the faithful departed and single "when you're gone," 1996

[lenbryant]

My Reading List for 2025...

...must include Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I'll just need some instructions on how to react and what to expect in the coming years.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)(1958)

We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

[whatameshugenah]

The Battle on the Bridge

Arnold Böcklin, Basel 1827–1901

[saintkevorkian]

For generations the British bourgeoisie have spoken of themselves as gentlemen, and by that they have meant, among other things, a self-respecting scorn of irregular perquisites.

Decline and Fall, 1928. Evelyn Waugh

[leahazel]

Rereading some D&F and apparently I accidentally named Tristan's dad twice. Two different names. Gonna stick with the second one because I like it better and edit the older mention to fix it.

[rastronomicals]

2:45 PM EST February 12, 2024:

Atomic Rooster - "Decline And Fall" From the album Atomic Roooster (February 1970)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm