Esmeralda Anstrauta
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Esmeralda Anstrauta
The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Common opinion has it that hunger is the physiological need to eat, whereas appetite is framed as just a desire to eat, driven by emotional or sensory pleasure rather than bodily need. We see this in the division between nutrition and gastronomy, or between food as fuel and food as pleasure.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
These fragments I have shored against my ruins. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
If you want a map that contains all details of the territory it’s supposed to represent, then the map has to be the size of the territory itself.
Recognizing the connections between a culture’s food and its inequities and injustices apparently catalyzes an extreme reaction: utter removal of the self from the corrupt system. (Chris Kraus via Emmeline Clein’s Dead Weight)
“Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to
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there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.
milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers
Philosophy is really homesickness - an urge to be at home everywhere. (Novalis)