Being born in a body that’s apparently historically impermissible, however, only meant I was not as prone to those traps that lie in wait for Arcadians-the various and insidious forms of history-worship and past-lust. The classic counterpart traits of the Arcadian, like a fondness for old objects and buildings, and an inclination towards historicised figments, were, as far as I was concerned, much easier to inhabit for white people, who continued to cast and curate all the readymade, ready-to-hand visions. Utopian Personality Types, as a rule, find old things redolent of decay, and can just about put up with new things which are still not the future. (It-paradise-is ultimately to be a collaboration.) They were access to, glimpses of, Arcadia: The Grand Ahistorical Mythical Paradise which is the ultimate project of all Arcadian Personality Types who crave a paradise knit out of visions of the past much like their more illustrious cousins, Utopians, do with the future.
These non-existent beams, hurled up from non-existent tree-fringed and flickering bodies of water, were the perfectly normal sensational offshoots of gazing at photos all day. A day’s immersion left the same mental after-dazzle as a sun-glanced afternoon, lakeside.
von Reinhold is a Scottish writer, and Lote won the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Memorial Prize.Īfter a few minutes, the rigidity of the black and white photos would, if not depart, then liquify. The following is from Shola von Reinhold's Lote.
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