photo caption: NATURE MORTE, SANTA OLAYA, PR, 2010
J. Cotard: "Du délire hypochondriaque dans une forme grave de la méleancolie anxieuse." Annales medico-psychologiques, Paris, 1880, 4: 168-174. "Du délire des negations." Archives de neurologie, Paris, 1882, 4: 152-282.
[miercoles, 22 de junio de 2011, 11:11am]
-- ISN'T TODAY THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR? ASKS LILLIAN
-- I THINK THAT WAS YESTERDAY.
-- IT'S THE SUMMER SOLSTICE, RIGHT?
-- OH. BY THE WAY, I KNEW LOCKE WOULD COME BACK TO LIFE.
-- HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?
-- SIMPLE. THE "LOST" ISLAND IS SOME KIND OF SHANGRI-LA.
[ONE YEAR AGO]
-- DO YOU REALLY WANT TO MOVE TO PUERTO RICO? ASKS LILLIAN.
-- IT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME.
-- O.K. THEN.
[YESTERDAY]
-- DOES YOUR HEAD HURT? I ASK LILLIAN.
-- NO, WHY?
-- MINE DOES. MAYBE IT'S ALL THIS TIME-SHIFTING, AND PLOT-TWISTING THAT'S GIVING ME A HEADACHE.
-- REALLY? IT'S NOT THAT COMPLEX. THE ISLAND IS AN ARCADIA, AN AFTER-LIFE ELYSIUM. SOME, LIKE RICHARD ALPERT, HAVE BEEN THERE FOREVER. OTHERS HAVE JUST ARRIVED. MOST OF THE OTHERS" WERE BORN THERE. THOSE BORN THERE DON'T LEAVE, OR IF THEY DO LEAVE, THEN THEY'RE BOUND TO COME BACK. THOSE THAT END UP THERE, WANT TO LEAVE, BUT WHEN THEY DO LEAVE, THEY WANT TO COME BACK AGAIN...
[TODAY]
... THOSE THAT HAVE TO LEAVE, USUALLY TRAVEL VIA A HOLE IN THE GROUND UNDERNEATH THE "ORCHID" THAT SHOOTS THEM OFF TO TUNISIA. THEN TO GET BACK, THEY HAVE TO GO INTO THE BASEMENT OF A CHURCH IN SANTA MONICA OR TAKE ANOTHER AIRPLANE TRIP, IF THAT'S HOW THEY GOT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND CRASH AGAIN, USUALLY IN THE JUNGLE NOT FAR FROM THE "ORCHID" AND MOST LIKELY THEY END UP FLAT ON THEIR BACKS WHEN THEY WAKE UP AND FIND THEMSELVES BACK AGAIN...
-- OUCH. LILLIAN, MY HEAD HURTS. PASS ME A BEER.
-- O.K.
J.Galligan
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Santa Olaya, PR
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