Blue Eyes

  ‘The ego creates, autocratically, a new external and internal world; and there can be no doubt of two facts - that this new world is constructed in accordance with the id’s wishful impulses, and that the motive of this dissociation from the external world is some very serious frustration by...

I lead in a rumble once, out at Desolation, an Easside - Wesside umdeilu that happened on our turf, by the train tracks, on a stormy summer night. There's condos there now, and a chain restaurant that inherited the vibe of the land it sits on, or at least has had a hard time shaking it. For years...

Maria Alva Roff University of Iceland  Reykjavik 2002 Note: this essay is reproduced here without footnotes due to platform limitations. For the original document, with footnotes intact, please contact the author. The subjects of space and place and the urge to define them have been...