Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
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Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
We can’t conserve anything, and especially not social relations, without altering their nature, arresting some part of their interaction with time in an unnatural way.
Sally Rooney • Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
This idea is familiar to psychology, too. To remove a fear, you first have to name it. To purge a repressed emotion, you must give it the right label. One friend tells me all the young women she knows spend hours discussing Sally Rooney novels and in this way are examining their romantic lives more closely than they ever would otherwise. Another re... See more
Henry Oliver • Notes Towards an Applied Literature
Soleil Saint-Cyr added
She would say, though, that the blurred boundaries were precisely the point, that it’s exactly in that place of orgasmic bliss or, sometimes, sheer terror where the stuff we normally keep repressed floats to the surface, ripe for transformation.
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi • The Centre: A Novel
You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.
Sally Rooney • Conversations with Friends: A Novel
In other words, the more we seek to control the world, the more it will fail to speak to us, and, consequently the more alienated and dissatisfied we will feel. I might even put it this way: Rosa aims to show that how we set about to find meaning, purpose, or happiness more or less guarantees that we will never find any of them. The rest of the boo... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Paradox of Control
Alex Wittenberg added