From whatever side one approaches things, the ultimate problem turns out in the final analysis to be that of distinction: distinctions between the real and the imaginary, between waking and sleeping, between ignorance and knowledge, etc. -- all of them, in short, distinctions in which valid consideration must demonstrate a keen awareness and the demand for resolution. Among distinctions, there is assuredly none more clear-cut than that between the organism and its surroundings; at least there is none in which the tangible experience of separation is more immediate.
— “Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia,” Roger Caillois, 1937
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Instrumentals (note circa: summer 2023): “Instrument Soundtrack,” Fugazi, 1997