The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Anand Thakur
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONLove is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONAll human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
ANNE CARSONAristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ANNE CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSONWe humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONWords bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONWe’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.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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