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Susan Sontag föddes den 16 januari 1933 och dog den 28 december 2004 - US writer
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 The Way We Live Now

 The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.

 This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.

 To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

 Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

 Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

 Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

 Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

 We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

 What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine

 What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

 What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

 What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

 What we need is to use what we have.

 With more people, there are more voices to tune out.


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