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“At the local coffee-shop, hunched in one of the secretive, high-backed booths with hundreds of peoples' names gouged into the wood, we drank cup after cup of black coffee and talked frankly about sex.”
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“men cannot know each other till they have ‘eaten salt together’;”
― Nicomachean Ethics
― Nicomachean Ethics
“The history of the Beast is fulfilled, and in humility it awaits a double death —the physical annihilation and the obliteration of the recollection to itself.”
― Das Untier. Konturen einer Philosophie der Menschenflucht
― Das Untier. Konturen einer Philosophie der Menschenflucht
“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Winter is for women —
The woman, still at her knitting,
At the cradle of Spanish walnut,
Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.
Will the hive survive, will the gladiolas
Succeed in banking their fires
To enter another year?
What will they taste of, the Christmas roses?
The bees are flying. They taste the spring.
— Sylvia Plath, from “Wintering,” Ariel. (Harper & Row 1966)”
― Ariel
The woman, still at her knitting,
At the cradle of Spanish walnut,
Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.
Will the hive survive, will the gladiolas
Succeed in banking their fires
To enter another year?
What will they taste of, the Christmas roses?
The bees are flying. They taste the spring.
— Sylvia Plath, from “Wintering,” Ariel. (Harper & Row 1966)”
― Ariel
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