So, how to wrap my arms around this term in a way that captures its spirit without flattening it?
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
We don’t just win at sports, we kill the other team; we demolish them; we devour our opponents. To express our appreciation for a baby’s cuteness, we say we could eat her up. When we have sex, we ravish our lovers, nibble their ears, lick their vulvas, or swallow their cocks. Gleeful, we banquet on flesh.
Chelsea G. Summers • A Certain Hunger
On page 20 of the album a cotton dress fragment belonging to Mercy Taylor is described as being ‘printed at Primrose’. It is a shaded ombré – the process of colours graduating into one another – fading from the brightest magenta through to a paler shade and cut through at intervals with a wavy stripe in emerald green. If the four inches of fabric
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The unsmiling faces and the sepia tones drain their lives of colour and emotion. This has become a part of the popular chronicling of the nineteenth century, and yet to turn the pages of Anne’s album is to be let into a well-kept secret. These were not colourless people, but ones who lived in an age of technical innovation and fast-paced change.
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That tenderness, desire fulfilled, is the heart of the story. It's what animates the layers of performance and incarnation. The elusiveness of fulfilled desire—its ephemerality, its illusoriness, its inability to finally overcome the threats of abandonment and death—is the reason that these narrators, Margery and Bob, must tell their stories. -"A
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