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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

Anne Carson

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Anand Thakur
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Anand Thakur
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

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