Jean Luc Godard’s film, Masculin Feminin (see trailer above)
The song, “Visions of Johanna,” by Bob Dylan on repeat.
A sexual superstition you’ve heard or experienced (i.e. women can’t get pregnant if they’re on top). And why. And all the rest.
That time you did or did not try Ecstasy.
A moment in which you felt a slight gap between yourself and the world.
Rilke’s belief “in the possibility of love in a climate of death.” And how that looks.
The fact that Karl Marx’s favorite virtue in women was weakness while his favorite virtue in men was strength. Using this as the basis for a dialogue between Marx and Jenny von Westphalen, his wife.
That moment when Jenny Laura Marx and Paul Lafargue committed suicide together.
Something in response to Nelly Sach’s one line poem: “But silence is where the victims dwell.”
A poem or story for which the secret, unrevealed epigraph might be Sigmund Freud’s 1915 statement: "Our own death is indeed, unimaginable, and whenever we make the attempt to imagine it we can perceive that we really survive as spectators."