the still passenger sits on a train, on the window seat, in the middle of a long car. these are the days when there were drive-in movie theaters dotted across the landscape. at dusk, the images on the screen appear off in the distance. the images presented here are those which are glimpsed, the ones that still her thoughts. the train rolls along. the landscape seems to move, but doesn't. the still passenger sits alone with her snapshots in her mind. she's filling in the spaces.
September 8, 2012
adele put down the phone with arthur. she would have a long, pleasant sleep.
he did some other things. i know he has murdered at least one man. i beg of you arthur, cast him off.
later i learned that he went into cons. now he's getting shock treatments.
delvaux did forgeries, petty stuff in the beginning.
paul delvaux was a friend of ferdinand waldo demara, the great impostor.
mr. delvaux is a con artist. i ran into him years ago. i told you to not get involved.
if i have no memory of these things, how would i know them to be even half truths?
September 7, 2012
arthur said that mr. delvaux could reveal memories that he never had before.
you said that you wanted to forget your past.
arthur, do not get involved with this man.
his name is paul delvaux. he says that he can read my past.
September 5, 2012
arthur will tell me about him late friday night.
arthur met a man in the sanatorium.
September 4, 2012
but when we kissed from a thousand miles away, they were a thousand kisses deep. (l.c.)
arthur was in herisau, switzerland. but his mind was elsewhere.
i was in tunis.
September 3, 2012
adele kissed him from a thousand miles away.
now he couldn't remember himself as a boy.
arthur said that the shock treatments were meant to relieve his mania.
welcome to your life. there's no turning back. even while we speak.
adele said that he shouldn't be concerned. it will show up someday.
in the back of his mind was this. he could not place it in his history.
September 2, 2012
was it from the past or from the future? arthur didn't seem to care.
he thinks there was a girl on the floor. it might have been on a train.
the first clip arthur saw was of men's shoes tapping each other. maybe a kind of introduction.
September 1, 2012
he said it sounded like a fog horn. he said that it felt like something was making an entrance.
they didn't use sine-waves. some other waves were thrust into his head from both sides.
arthur felt less excitable. he was happy with that. but he felt dull.
she felt a frisson when arthur received his treatments.
and i want to take them all. i want to take everything with me.
i want to see pictures of everything yesterday, today and tomorrow.
August 30, 2012
arthur wants to lose things. i don't think that you should ever lose things.
arthur wants to forget some things. he says that he is tired of them.
he is getting electroshock therapy for his mania. he wanted it.
August 29, 2012
i gave him robert walzer and bruno schulz to read. arthur will be fine.
arthur decided he needed a rest. he is in a sanatorium in switzerland.
August 28, 2012
is arthur still alive? you haven't mentioned him. where is he?
August 27, 2012
we will talk of our love lives. we will talk of how we think.
have you ever had a tree burn down in front of your house?
accompany me with your guitar on my television in my living room.
August 26, 2012
you will be on my right shoulder through the night.
you may remember falls.
if i remember a certain lake in my childhood,
August 25, 2012
my name is adele. i am part of you now.
over the last few days the nets have dropped, and a small change has occurred.
perspective. but i was trapped by nets, which followed me everywhere.
my delay of two weeks was unsettling. my intention was to go out of my mind to gain
