The threads out of which so much has been woven come from sources first charted by Walter Benjamin.

A classic “vates,” in the old Roman sense — a wielder of insight amidst a plethora of forms and hidden values.

A chronicler of his immediate age, which strangely resembles ours, as well as a perspicacious navigator of the seas of the psyche, in a searching critique of the sights and the shadows of all times.

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)