A Movable Festival

May 10, 2025

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May-day — I forget whether by Zenobia’s sole decree, or by the unanimous vote of our community — had been declared a movable festival. It was deferred until the sun should have had a reasonable time to clear away the snowdrifts along the lee of the stone walls, and bring out a few of the readiest wild flowers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance

Maybe 2003? Imagine the crowd at a Daughters/An Albatross show post-You Won’t Get What You Want, then throw Jucifer on the bill just because.

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Thought:

“The abject has only one quality of the object — that of being opposed to I. If the object, however, through its opposition, settles me within the fragile texture of a desire for meaning, which, as a matter of fact, makes me ceaselessly and infinitely homologous to it, what is abject, on the contrary, the jettisoned object, is radically excluded and draws me toward the place where meaning collapses.”

Julia Kristeva | Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

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