A Consumer’s Guide to Melancholia
‘A penny for the old guy’(1).
Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion…
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act
Falls the Shadow…
Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response
Falls the Shadow…
Van Gogh, V. (1890) Sorrowing old man (at eternity’s gate).
..and a glossary to start…
Aboulia: Aboulia or abulia […]