Anne Carson - Plainwater (1995)

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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

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Why does it enrage an animal to be given what it already knows?

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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken.... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough,

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