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A relationship has a structure that allows it to go on, emotions and responsibilities stable, expectations understood - a way to introduce each other, for example, to family, or to become for one another a family. There is a form, and the recognizability of the form defines this as a relationship. Otherwise what terms to use, what forms to try? How do I know who I could be for you?
— Oct 15, 2023 09:20PM
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nathan
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Despair sings into the flesh and literature practices a form love may yet take.
— Oct 16, 2023 05:54PM
nathan
is on page 70 of 168
..how memory is a practice, a discipline that needs you.
— Oct 16, 2023 05:15PM
nathan
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How can I remember what I never knew?
*on the Iraq War
— Oct 16, 2023 04:38PM
*on the Iraq War
nathan
is on page 67 of 168
I wrote the novel in try and learn who I am when I read.
— Oct 16, 2023 04:37PM
nathan
is on page 67 of 168
The novel moves quickly among settings and situations in an exaggerated echo of daily newspaper and its fundamental disorientation..
— Oct 16, 2023 04:37PM
nathan
is on page 64 of 168
Alternative history: I have thought or said this myself. Yet what good is this? Instead I want a vision like Dimock's, in which there is a way to ”[live] the present moment within a frame of redemptive, universal history." Literature is an alternative present you practice now.
— Oct 16, 2023 03:40PM
nathan
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The dream of fiction imagines us into the endless present of despair.
— Oct 16, 2023 03:32PM
nathan
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.. a book is always in the present tense, until the book itself is lost to history.
— Oct 16, 2023 03:29PM
nathan
is on page 46 of 168
Correspondence, I stress at the end, is a practice of attention.
I describe correspondence as intimate, as collectively made, as outside the forms of production.
— Oct 16, 2023 12:11AM
I describe correspondence as intimate, as collectively made, as outside the forms of production.
nathan
is on page 46 of 168
..what literature can offer is practices of attention. Literature Keeps pushing beyond or through or dissolving the forms in which our attention and our language and our narratives and rhetorics take shape, and are disseminated, and establish themselves. So I guess that's what I want.
— Oct 16, 2023 12:11AM
