14 October 1989

The newspaper is at an acute angle to the viewer and the text soon becomes indistinct. In the foreground, however, can be read:
...that conflicts between them can lead to bloodshed. Faced with the release of pent-up forces, any amount of scenarios for the future can be devised, from anarchy and chaos to coups, reversion to...

Across the lake a white mist hangs and the far shore is barely visible. Seen in medium close-up the woman's head is bowed.

A defaced screen depicting a courtier and in the distance, the tower of a castle.

The camera vomits earth, flies, insects and a boarder crossing from its lens. The landscape behind is upended, leaves and nationalist banners are caught-up by the wind and a rose bud swirls before the woman's naked body. The man rests his head in his hands, the fingers pushing deep into the sockets of his eyes. Behind him a globule of saliva.

There was something in common between events in the moral and physical world, between disturbances near and far, on earth and in the sky.

Boris Pasternak 'Dr. Zhivago'

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