Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Quotes from the Book
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.
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How long will it feel like burning, said the child trying to be kind.
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
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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 leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Everything is a naked thought that strikes.
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A foghorn sounding through fog makes the fog seem to be everything.
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Pregunta de Kant sobre Monica Vitti Estaba oculta en ella y a Kant le producía un gran placer. L’Eclisse empieza con el viento agitando el cabello de Monica Vitti. Ella está en un cuarto. El placer de Kant era en parte negativo. ¿De dónde viene ese viento? Kant se complacía en lo que él llamaba la Cosa en sí. Ella va y viene por el cuarto mirando el suelo, mientras es observada fijamente por un hombre en un sillón. La Cosa en sí era inalcanzable, infranqueable. Ella sigue intentando dejar el cuarto. Ni podía representarse la Cosa en sí. Las cortinas están corridas, el cuarto está lleno de objetos, las lámparas alumbran aquí y allá ¿quién puede decirme qué hora de la noche es? Su cabello se agita suavemente. A pesar de la imposibilidad de su representación, la Cosa en sí podría quedar inscrita dentro de los fenómenos. Ella levanta un trozo de papel, lo baja. Kant percibió un murmullo a un lado de las barreras sensatas. Su inquietud deriva en ella, se desborda, sigue a la deriva. Se ve un abanico giratorio sobre la mesa a un lado del hombre en el sillón. Kant se sintió frágil como una ola. Ahora ella puede irse. La superficie de la película se relaja. Kant dejó que su alma se expandiera. Ella camina hacia la sucia luz del día. Kant afianzó su sombrero. Ella se siente un tanto avergonzada pero contenta de caminar. Se aleja en ese más difícil amanecer.
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Simone Weil described “decreation” as “undoing the creature in us”–an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing.
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- 2005
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- Anne Carson
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