All About Love, bell hooks | Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken
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When Anaïs Nin said “I have belonged to you in a way you haven’t to me” and when Byron said “although I am not beloved, still let me love” and when Mary Shelley said “although I may not be yours, I can never be another’s” and when Alexandre Dumas-Fils said “no matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me”
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I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being
Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede, Richard Siken | Ghosts of right now, Dillon Samuelson | Faces in the Crowd, Valeria Luiselli
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When Ursula K. Le Guin said that all the old stories tell us about hunting but really 65% of their diets were foraged, collected and gathered. And the only reason the stories persisted were because they were stories, frightening and heroic. And when Virginia Woolf tried to re-write the English language she wanted to replace the word Heroism with Botulism which is a kind of food poisoning. And heroes all started as men who almost died trying to hunt for food, food that wouldn’t be stored properly. And this idea of heroism started to infect our idea of humanity and how it started. And how Ursula K Le Guin said she wasn’t human if humanity was all about violence and hunting. And when Lillian Smith said that What Freud mistook for her lack of civilization is woman’s lack of loyalty to civilization because what history tells us is human is largely the story of men. And the story of men is pointed violent weapons, active things. And the lost history is that of the carrier, the recipient, the weaved basket used to carry grains. And the lost history is that of the women and how they too are carrier, recipients, almost passive holders of all the life they gathered.
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