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Erotics of Liberation on Substack
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What’s the use of returning to the story of a dead love? Not to find “what happened,” but why it matters. To find matter—that place where love and death kiss, that place of creation and destruction. To find the glimpses of art and heart in my own story, the small sediments that arrange and settle, then again rise and rearrange.
Lidia Yuknavitch • Reading the Waves: A Memoir
These are erotic decisions: driven not by logic, but by the magnetic logic of the soul. They often look like madness to the outside world – irresponsible, inexplicable, dramatic – but they are the precise moments where life, real life, begins to throb. These are the moments where one’s biography is no longer dictated by inheritance, but by invocati... See more
Tamara • Erotic Decisions
I’d thought the two paths were: sex with Davey vs. a life of bitterness and regret But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising like this night had been. While I didn’t have the narcotic high Davey gave me, there was another kind of elation and it was, among other things, weirder. I felt untether
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