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22nd August 2010

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fette: J.G. Ballard, Self-Portrait Double Exposure, 1950. Via. Taken while Ballard was a student at Cambridge University. — A uniform is an attempt to reconcile form and content, to match what you think you look like with what you’d like to look like, what you think you are with what you want to suggest. You find this match without really looking for it. Marguerite Duras, The M.D. Uniform in Practicalities [La Vie Matérielle], 1987. Translated by Barbara Bray. Read more. Via.

fette:

J.G. Ballard, Self-Portrait Double Exposure, 1950. Via. Taken while Ballard was a student at Cambridge University.

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A uniform is an attempt to reconcile form and content, to match what you think you look like with what you’d like to look like, what you think you are with what you want to suggest. You find this match without really looking for it.

Marguerite Duras, The M.D. Uniform in Practicalities [La Vie Matérielle], 1987. Translated by Barbara Bray. Read more. Via.

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