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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

Anne Carson

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Desire is no light thing.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

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