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On Transcending Art vs. Being Transcended

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Tim Kreider
Apr 07, 2025
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Top Left: Vincent D’Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1988); Top Right: Divine in Multiple Maniacs (John Waters, 1972); Lower left: Lon Chaney, sr. in The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927); screaming child in Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point (Tyler Thomas Taormina, 2024)

At a midnight screening of Eraserhead years ago, I witnessed a battle betwee…

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