against narrative
There it is again: that matrix of ancient human suffering that persistently defies my attempts to categorize it. There it is again: the allure of easy cultural criticism, promising to smooth down those agonies into a comprehensible and vaguely cathartic shape.
-Rayne Fisher-Quan
So much of life, and loss, exists in this space between binaries: a divorce that doesn’t end a relationship; a move that brings too much baggage to the new destination; a dying relative who’s no longer alive in the way we remember him, even as he breathes the same air we do for years. As painful as the extreme might be in these situations—severing
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