Timeline

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A mythology of Dada Saheb Phalke

In which we keep time in years, each year like a woman's saree, gathering so much into its pleats. Each year aware that it is a lie, seeking to do what electronic eyes try to do in factories, seeking to be wakeful to everywhere at once.. each year aware that at most, it is a bundle of holes, eyes maybe, thrown over the waters of consciousness of which we know little except that they are and that they torture us when they don't just trouble us. We seek to catch some fish in our nets, so we can sort them. We freeze outsides in photographs, we choose and narrate memories as closely as we can, we spit ...these patterns of our consciousness lie waiting for other nets, to be caught by other eyes and other consciousnesses.. Your story threaded with my eye dives in and out of these waters Our projectors whirr, letting off sweat drops like in an old cartoon projector of an old cartoon film in an old projection room.

We start our work with an invocation to her who sits on the lotus and again and again, puts a needle in those old grooves, letting them scratch. This can only be a parent, or a child, or a friend dear enough to become like either. Saraswati we invoke you, we salute you, you patient, loving archivist of our scratchy sounds.

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The Black Book

The very vanity of the enterprise, when it finally makes me move, pulls me in further, and me and Me and mee. Like a large gathering of locusts, we scatter, making a new sky

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BOOK 1- 1919



A timeline must be fed. What is the shape of the monster?

A time line of postcards

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1921 . 1922 . 1923 . 1924 . 1925 [[2]]

1926 . 1927 . 1928 . 1929 . 1930 1931 . 1932 . 1933 . 1934 . 1935 . 1936 . 1937 . 1938 . 1939 . 1940 . 1941 . 1942 [[3]]

1943 . 1944

Advertisement Before 1946

World History Timeline studying the world between the wars [4]

B.C.E. / C.E.

1861.