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“I had a sense of dissolving, as if I, an orderly pile of dust, had been blown about by the wind all day and now was suspended in the air without a shape.”
― The Lost Daughter
― The Lost Daughter
“Only now can I visualize the room. It defies analysis.
All I can do is sink into it. I feel that the woman who is busying herself between my legs, inserting the speculum, is giving birth to me.
At that point I killed my own mother inside me.
For many years I saw that room and those curtains the same way I had seen them from my reclining position on the bed. Now it might be a room streaming with light, with Ikea furniture, belonging to a young executive who has bought the whole floor. However, I am convinced that the walls still resonate with the memory of the girls and women who went there to have a probe thrust into them.”
― Happening
All I can do is sink into it. I feel that the woman who is busying herself between my legs, inserting the speculum, is giving birth to me.
At that point I killed my own mother inside me.
For many years I saw that room and those curtains the same way I had seen them from my reclining position on the bed. Now it might be a room streaming with light, with Ikea furniture, belonging to a young executive who has bought the whole floor. However, I am convinced that the walls still resonate with the memory of the girls and women who went there to have a probe thrust into them.”
― Happening
“I’m no plumber!' This sentence and so many other ones that punctuated this part of my life - ordinary sentences by people who uttered them without thinking - still resonate inside my brain. I wasn't 'expecting' it and nothing can deaden its impact, neither familiarity nor sociopolitical analysis. Fleetingly, I glimpse a man in a white coat with rubber gloves, beating me black and blue, yelling, I'm no plumber! In my mind, this sentence continues to split the world in two, ramming home the distinction between, on the one hand, doctors, on the other, workers or women who abort, between those who rule and those who are ruled.”
― Happening
― Happening
“I’m trimmed in memories as if in old furs. I lift my arm and the sleeve of memory covers it.”
― The Vampire Armand
― The Vampire Armand
“I want to become immersed in that part of my life once again and learn what can be found there. This investigation must be seen in the context of a narrative, the only genre able to transcribe an event that was nothing but time flowing inside and outside of me. The diary I kept back then will provide the necessary dates and evidence to establish what happened. Above all I shall endeavour to revisit every single image until I feel that I have physically bonded with it, until a few words spring forth, of which I can say, 'yes, that's it. I shall try to conjure up each of the sentences engraved in my memory which were either so unbearable or so comforting to me at the time that the mere thought of them today engulfs me in a wave of horror or sweetness.”
― Happening
― Happening
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