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- As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it…
- Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In…
- We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every…
- When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to…
- It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it…
- When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into…
- We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking…
- Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular…
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