One thing we can say for pretty sure is that
she was not the kind of grandaunt who
has a drawer in the kitchen labeled
"bits of string too short for use."
Stacks, in Float, Anne Carson
I find it hard to think of Jezebel as anyone's grandaunt.
One thing we can say for pretty sure is that she was not the kind of grandaunt who has a drawer in the kitchen labeled "bits of string too short for use." Stacks, in Float, Anne Carson I go inside. Make tea.
Eat branflakes. Read three pages of Proust. Proust is complaining (it is 1914) about the verb savoir as used by journalists. He says they use it not as a sign of the future but as a sign of their desires-- what they want the future to be. What's wrong with that? I think. I should learn more about signs. Wildly Constant, in Float, Anne Carson 16.0 As far as the experience of stirring is concerned, small stillness produces small stirring and great stillness great stirring.
By Chance the Cycladic People, in Float, Anne Carson The telling of a mirror is tricky.
How to Like "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso" by Gertrude Stein, in Float, Anne Carson LECTURER II
So too when noble Patroklos borrows the helmet of Achilles in order to do battle with Hektor and Hektor knocks the helmet off his head and it rolls under the feet of the horses, this signifies things going wrong and people suddenly mortal who didn't look mortal before. Uncle Falling: A Pair of Lyric Lectures with Shared Chorus, in Float, Anne Carson |
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