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1 " You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick. "
― Anne Carson , Red Doc>
2 " at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved… "
3 " Some conversations are not about what they're about. "
4 " To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. "
5 " Components of today include a shape asleep on the floor an erased white world the tumblers vibrating in the closet and he brought the wrong book. Alive in a room as usual. "
6 " To feel anything deranges you. To be seenfeeling anything strips younaked. In the grip of itpleasure or pain doesn’tmatter. You think whatwill they do what newpower will they acquire ifthey see me naked likethis. If they see youfeeling. You have no ideawhat. It’s not about them.To be seen is the penalty. "
7 " You read a hundredmilitary manuals you won't find the word kill they trickyou into killing. "
8 " Time as hunger.Time passing and gazing.Time as perseverance.Mountain time.Time as paper folded to look like a mountain.Time compared to the wild fantastic silence of stars. "
9 " Comparisonmakes you less interestingto yourself doesn't it.Your magic contracts yourbody putting forth no frillunder another's gaze. "
10 " What is a culture? Aculture is what approvesor disapproves of theactions in its midst. Yethow rare for approval tobe unanimous. "
11 " And yet hope turnsout to be let's face itmostly delusion a wordderived from Latin luderemeaning "to play a gamewith oneself or others"... "
12 " In later years thisis the one memory hewishes would go away andnot come back. And thereason he cannot bear herdying is not the loss of her(which is the future) butthat dying puts the two ofthem (now) into thisnakedness together that isunforgiveable. They do notforgive it. He turns away.This roaring air in hisarms. She is released. "
13 " Wife of Braindon't say you weren'texpecting a volcano thosered wingsthat not even bad love can tamemust signify something'ssomewhereabout to go up in flame or(as Proust says) beeternalized in pleasurelike the menin a Pompeian house of illfate yet fameis not illfor all "
14 " HE WAS FOURTEENit was years ago and Sad’sname wasn’t Sad yet. Firstcomet. G had juststumbled off a bus theylooked at one another andthat lasted until G wasalmost twenty but he.Well. Being a loyal soulhimself. Sad’s need tomake friends everywhere.Sex friends club friendsgym friends dope friendsshopping friendsbreakdown friends acommon enough problem. Sad didn’t see a problem.One day he looked aroundand G was gone. "
15 " chorusshould we discuss yourphilanthropyprometheusI went a bit too farchorushow do you meanprometheusI stopped them seeing death before themchoruswhoprometheushuman beingschorushowprometheusI planted blind hope in their heartschoruswhyprometheusthey were breakingchorusyou fool "
16 " what is the difference betweenpoetry and prose you know the old analogies proseis a house poetry a man in flames runningquite fast through it "
17 " WHEN HE IS there theylist the stones together.The stones are her lungs. "
18 " WHEN HE IS there theylift the stones together.The stones are her lungs. "