Trafika Europe 11 - Swiss Delights

Short Fiction

follow me?” He shook his head, “No, I don’t.”

He seemed to really feel sorry for me, but at the same time recognized that—as a philosopher and, consequently, as a homo sapiens —I was lost for good.

OFF THE MARK

A friend accused me of talking too much about images without ever getting to the crux of the issue. By “crux of the issue” he meant erotic images as a paradigm of the power pictures wield over their viewers. And—he went on—you never talk about ads: we’re all surrounded by gigantic images the size of buildings and you keep getting lost amid childhood memories and books nobody cares about anymore.

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