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“…caught in a state I mean stare I mean the act of seeing and being seen”

“When I listened to Phyllis talk, my brain melted because I was fed more information than I had the stamina to process, and everything she said seemed intuitively true”

Live for this feeling!

Making me realize how important taking pictures is, probably something about memory attention attunement or whatnot, unexpected but glad for the documentation drive

unfounded glee

!!!

Literally every other word is “abjection” or “oeuvre” or “pastiche”

“Even though Emin’s work would suggest she’s having the worst time imaginable, hers — and by association her spectator’s — is an art and a life predicated upon the possibility of pleasure… Even when it’s bad, it’s good”

!!!

Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Obsessed with God as Lover, thinking about how the priest at my middle school said he couldn’t have a wife because he was married to God, covenant etc etc

O cautery so tender!
O pampered wound!


Weeeeepy in the library, beautiful collection

How much are you willing to withstand? That’s what we ought to ask newborns, before we give them a name.

Love how sparse and was reading about the influence of legal language

I was thinking “wow this is particularly sick and suffering and relatable” and then it got to the ACA mention lol

“This is where I tell him that getting to know a person feels like crucifixion”

Appreciating the Biblical

“… since I’m not grown-up enough to know how to use a truth without destroying myself”

In the contest of “imagination vs. reality” I am drawn to the “versus”

!! I think I really adore earnestness even when it’s too much, or maybe especially when it’s too much

“severe focus and a ton of permission”

(sweetly encouraging)

Started in the Turner gift shop waiting for Mac and Anna, the trip has become more of a pilgrimage, planning to go back to a second life later this week feels like a spiritual awakening (!)

“Yet it was her dread of a possible soul intimacy with Ulisses that made her annoyed with him. Was she in fact fighting her own intense urge to come closer to the impossible part of another human being?”

So dramatic and I am loving it

“Whose rest does it disturb?”

ripe men & dew-ret flowers

There aren’t a lot of non academic books to choose from in the social work library. I think it’s funny it’s classified as “internal medicine”