Jean Baudrillard on Halloween

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (1605), Witches, Scene IIn context

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (1623), In: Medical Arena, Volumes 7-8, 1898, p. 122In context

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.