Attention Span

Think of Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel. The way it becomes impossible for a group of people to take leave of one another, to cross a threshold into open air—until, and just as arbitrarily, it becomes possible again. Think of the following posts as the exit each individual makes after the inexplicable ordeal inexplicably ends. I’ll be posting several a day through mid-May or so, at which point the whole installment will join its predecessors here. Keep in mind that contributors were writing in the late summer and autumn of 2008. A directory of contributors can be found here.

Still from The Exterminating Angel