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“Already in Homer’s usage, the same verb (mnaomai) has the meaning ‘to give heed, to make mention’ and also the meaning ‘to court, woo, be a suitor.”

The concept of alphabetisation and literacy taking over from the oral tradition creating a distinct knock on effect in our experience of the world is just beautiful, genuinely profound. That words, when written, cause us to make distinctions from the greater fabric of alive things, that they make us see our bodies as ends of our selfhood, and the rest of the world as separate. Illuminating.

"For in this dance the people do not move. Desire moves. Eros is a verb"

me irritei da última vez que li e to meio num slump

já volto ..

“when I gave birth to you with your white skin radiant as light—an incongruous thing in an Ethiopian—I recognized the reason. You see, at the very moment when my husband penetrated me I was staring at a painting of Andromeda.“

Exquisite

Will definitely need a second read through if i want to fully understand it, but the core argument about the contradictory nature of eros is fascinating

damn

JODEEEEEEER lectura de tren#