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What fascinated him about [superstructure and substructure] was that the spirit and its material manifestation were so intimately connected that it seemed permissible to discover everywhere Baudelaire's correspondences, which clarified and illuminated one another if they were properly correlated, so that finally they would no longer require any interpretative or explanatory commentary. He was concerned with the correlation between a street scene, a speculation on the stock exchange, a poem, a thought, with the hidden line which holds them together and enables the historian or philologist to recognize that they must a11 be placed in the same period. When Adorno criticized Benjamin's "wide-eyed presentation of actualities" (Briefe II, 793), he hit the nail right on its head; this is precisely what Benjamin was doing and wanted to do. Strongly influenced by surrealism, it was the "attempt to capture the portrait of history in the most insignificant representations...

I saw a street lamp and it reached out to the moon, To lay on top of it and subsume it to its own vested light. before the moon that retreating prude changed its mind And the earth laid down for the sun to sell out its counterpart. It’s not too much money, it’s never too much, We’re past saving up of course Put it back in we'll get some machinery And eventually we’ll have enough to drill that starry plot.

Naked and never again Standing on this hill Together, while deepwater spills Tonight they abrogate an end. Before in the dark they played and bashed the cymbals and snares til the rare passerby sat to listen, smoke, or stare. When that song was over they packed up the kit; Maybe they missed the rhythm but the music was shit. They’re yelling again in the rain but smell a fire idling late through their sets. And they both know that one isn’t there but she still talks about depth.