Roughly speaking, the child represents feeling and the adult represents thinking. Without the adult, the child is unprotected. Without the child, the adult can get out of touch with true needs and feelings.
“My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.”
― Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
― Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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