Pepper’s Ghost
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Garment Dyed - 6.5oz Ivy Short Sleeve
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Pepper's Ghost:
An illusion technique, used in the theatre, cinema, amusement parks, museums, television, and concerts, in which an image of an object off-stage is projected so that it appears to be in front of the audience. *
Cocteau:
"Even if the means of transmission no longer exist and my image can't be projected any more, in any case, I hope to be before you as a ghost even though I don't believe in death."
"I do not believe in death because death is one of the forms of life."
on Jean-Marie Straub, Cocteau and Mirrors:
"I should not wish you to remember me or rather this "I" who is speaking to you, but the I who dwells in the shadows, in my shadows, and that has been expressed with great lack of control, for I say to you again, control is very dangerous. Faults are the true expression of the individual."
"And if my work is valid, I should like there to be written on my gravestone: "I am beginning.""
Coleridge (who coined "Intermedia" in 1812):
In every work of art there is a reconcilement of the external with the internal; the conscious is so impressed on the unconscious as to appear in it; as compared mere letters inscribed on a tomb with figures themselves constituting the tomb. He who combines the two is the man of genius; and for that reason he must partake of both. Hence there is in genius itself an unconscious activity; nay, that is the genius in the man of genius.
Cocteau's Epitaph in Milly-la-Forêt : "I Stay With You"
W.E.B. Du Bois:
I remember once offering to an editor an article which began with a reference to the experience of the last century. ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘leave out the history and come to the present.’ I felt like going to him over a thousand miles and taking him by the lapels and saying, ‘Dear, dear jackass! Don’t you understand that the past is the present; that without what was, nothing is? That, of the infinite dead, the living are but unimportant bits?"
