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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Monster

I found this sentence/information in Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Pecman. The word monster has its etymological roots in the Latin monstrare and French montrer: to show or make apparent. The association that came to me as I read this is that we all have a monster inside

[Reading] Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman

These are passages I highlighted in the book Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman because I like them. I don't recall ever feeling particularly English or British or Anglo Saxon or Celtic or whatever; this may have been partly the punkish, puckish spirit of the times, and partly

[Reading] Ian Penman on using theory as an autodidactic

From an interview with Ian Penman done for Interview Magazine by Sarah Nicole Prickett. PRICKETT: Your pieces for NME are infamously full of references to French theory. Do you feel that you read more, or more widely, because you were reading as a writer or a fan and not as