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“XI. MAKE YOUR CUTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LIVING JOINTS OF THE FORM SAID SOCRATES TO PHAEDRUS WHEN THEY WERE DISSECTING A SPEECH ABOUT LOVE.


Why did nature give me to this creature-- don't call it my choice, I was ventured:
by some pure gravity of existence itself,
conspirancy of being!
We were fifteen.
It was Latin class, late spring, late afternoon, the passive periphrastic,
for some reason I turned my seat
and there he was.
You know how they say a Zen butcher makes one correct cut and the
whole ox
falls apart
like a puzzle. Yes a cliché.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos