no state as high, as precarious as that of creativity, second only to that of desire
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also barthes pleasure of the text, & ricœur and shklovsky
appreciate the thread, but -- and i don't mean it in a negative way -- this quite doesn't escape highschool level engagement with art. we can take it a bit further for those in need of a slightly more advanced framework: the foundations of formal and structural narratology.
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L day. late, outshone by a man, lost charger
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only obnoxiously long jhumkas can fix me
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much of life is making out of small trials and small jubilations the grandest of stories to make the time go by
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ferenczi’s confusion of tongues
Freud's move from seduction theory to infantile sexuality is one that allows us to conceptualize how, perhaps irreversibly, awful child sexual abuse truly is. Introducing adult sexuality where infantile sexuality persists is a horror that is ontologically unimaginable to adults.
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just got called a bhikkhuni, it is true, death to desire
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adriaen coorte
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feel this week like there is music in me again, like in mughal e azam where the brick wall of unending exile secretly gave way to an escape
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few betrayals as treacherous as water in the shower when it starts off hot and then becomes progressively warmer then cold
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anne carson
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what is held sacred is hard to violate but once u do u unleash terrific savagery
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dadu was a cartographer, i wish we could talk abt that time, but we are just not pals like that
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sometimes a whole year goes by
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the first quarter of ur life does not matter
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one might ask, how do u know what the first quarter of ur life was if u don’t know when u will die. to which i say, precisely
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