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The heat of the white pebbles warms my belly, the salty sea leaves white streaks on my brown skin. It is paradise, but I am not happy. History is the dark magician inside us, tearing at our liver.
— Jul 05, 2026 02:20PM
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I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness.
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Jul 05, 2026 08:30PM
I don’t think I could cope at the moment with a book that entails tearing at the liver 😢😢
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Lyn wrote: "I don’t think I could cope at the moment with a book that entails tearing at the liver 😢😢"It is certainly a powerful and horrendous image, Lyn - maybe a bit more palatable if put in the context of Deborah Levy's manifold allusions to Greek myths, thinking of Prometheus?