He sought points of transformative resistance within the complex and contradictory theater of mass mediated desire. To stray with Benjamin is to stray complicitly from within. It is to seek out spaces of mediated fracture from within which we find ourselves vibrating between the practical exigencies of production and the ecstatic excesses of self-consumption. There is nothing easy about his search, this re-search. Moreover, it demands another sense of time.
All revolutions do.
Benjamin envisioned time differently. This is an allegory. It demands another sense of time. They had come to desire each other, like in the movies. They longed for intercourse as only the stars knew how.