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…he was literally plagued by the sense of them as children and adults‘ bodies. He saw it in their gestures and mannerisms, in their competitiveness, their anxiety, their anger and joy, most of all in their needs, both physical and emotional: even the people who knew were in stable relationships, relationships he once envied for their companionship…looked to him like no more than best friends in the playground.
— Sep 07, 2024 03:35PM
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Joseph Anthony
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They were hunting dogs, the student continued, who ran in packs behind a falcon or hawk, the bird guiding them towards their prey… it suggested that the ultimate fulfillment of a conscious being lay not in solitude, but in a shared state so intricate and cooperative it might almost be said to represent the entwining of two selves.
— Feb 07, 2025 02:54PM
Joseph Anthony
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I said that perhaps none of us could ever know what was true and what wasn’t.…The same forms and styles that from one distance seem to emanate shame, and to prove that we are capable of self-delusion, from another might be evidence of a native radicalism and rightness that we never knew we had, or at least that we were easily persuaded to lose faith in.
— Feb 06, 2025 03:04PM
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Started reading this 5 months ago. I was enjoying it but got sidetracked. Popping back to the beginning to get a fresh start.
— Feb 02, 2025 05:05PM
Joseph Anthony
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And the blabbing, the telling, was the messiest thing of all: getting control of language was getting control of anger and shame, and it was hard, hard to turn it around, to take the mess of experience and make something coherent out of it. Only then, did you know that you got the better of the things that happened to you: when you controlled the story rather than it controlling you.
— Sep 09, 2024 07:10PM
Joseph Anthony
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…I’ve never quite been able to grasp, Gerard said, the moral of that story. I think it might have something to do with paying attention not to what comes most naturally but to what you find most difficult. We are so schooled, he said, in the doctrine of self acceptance that the idea of refusing to accept yourself becomes quite radical.
— Sep 04, 2024 08:53PM
