Status Updates From A Breath of Life

"Poco me importa ser entendida, quiero el impacto de las sílabas exuberantes, quiero lo nocivo de una mala palabra... Quiero escribir con las palabras tan agarradas unas a las otras que no existan intervalos entre ellas y entre mí".

"La sensibilidad trémula volviendo todo lo que nos rodea más sensible y visible, con un pequeño e impalpable sobresalto".

I used to try to open a path in the darkness, knowing only how to beg. But only when I became naked did the doors of heaven and perception open wide to let me pass.

I want to swallow life down in a single gulp and then maybe something like dying. But my blood is slow. I want to show myself the dirtiest and lowest part of me - and only then can I forgive myself. I want to be forgiven for being so full of sensuality that it is an animal cry inside me, a taste of the harsh voice of the wolf desiring its prey, me!

There is a total silence within me. I get scared. How to explain this silence that I call the Unknown. I’m afraid of it.

"Tengo que vivir poco a poco, no hay forma de vivir todo de una vez."

I find that Lispector’s book almost require you to slow down and savour every sentence. Going to stretch this out for as long as I can

"No paso de ser una coma en la vida. Yo, que soy dos puntos. Tú eres mi exclamación".

If there’s one author you should read for WiT month, it’s Lispector