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Top, Floris Neusüss, Maßstab 1:unendlich bis 1:1. Das Objekt nähert sich der Kamera; Scale of one to infinity to full size. The object approaches the camera, gelatin silver print, Kassel 1973, 30,3 x 40,3 cm. Via. Bottom, Regine Petersen, Men with meteorites, from the series Find a Fallen Star, found image, 2009. Via.

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Andhara, Bihar, India, fell 2. December 1880

This new avatar of Mahadeva has received the name Adbhuta-Nath, »the miraculous or wonderful god« and its fame has spread all over the districts of Tirhut and Champaran. In response to an enquiry on the subject the Officiating Collector of Muzaffarpur has recently replied that there is no possibility of procuring for the museum any portion of this meteorite, as a temple has been built over the place where the stone fell and a mela and fair have been started in connection with the worship of the stone by which means the temple receives a considerable income.

Account by Major General A. Cunningham, Records of the Geological Survey of India Vol. XXXV, 1907: Fermor, Notes on Some Indian Aerolites, in Regine Petersen, A Brief History of Meteorite Falls, 2014.

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It could be that sadness is the girl-equivalent to chance. Chance has always been equivalent to sadness, it is an interior reality so physical and large there is no need to access it by studying the mathematical laws of permutation. Do numbers exist outside the atmosphere, like stars? The 20th century male avant-garde, crocodiles in club chairs, studying chance as algebraic code… Chance is ‘work’ and ‘work’ is always something quantifiable. Trace the line between two points… […] Like chance, emotion is a current that dissolves the boundaries of a person’s subjectivity. It is a country. Shouldn’t it be possible to leave the body? Is it wrong to even try?

Chris Kraus, Aliens and Anorexia, 2000. Via.