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Berenice Abbott Magnetic Field (1958-1961)
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“I struggle with myself, with the meaning to put into it all, with my desire to give and to hold, to keep and to lose, to live and to die. I want to remember all the time why I should want to live. I am all pain and no memory. Inside of my body there are fires, there are bruises, the flesh is in pain.”
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry wr. c. August 1937, featured in “Diaries,”
Frontispiece for “Les Fleurs du Mal” by Charles Baudelaire 1857
July, 1993 - Seattle, WA.
Interviewer: So is Courtney the best fuck in the world?
Kurt stands up without saying a word, turns around and hikes his black pinafore dress up around his chest so the interviewer can see dozens of red scratches on his back, from Courtney’s fingernails.
