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"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. We sleep in a long reproachful dust against ourselves. We are full to the gorge with our own names for misery. Life, the pastures in which the night feeds and prunes the cud that nourishes us to despair. Life, the permission to know death. We were created that the earth might b
... See moreNot handsome, exactly—in fact, he teetered on the edge of ugly: short and slightly stocky, with thinning black hair. But his skin was deeply tanned, as though he flew to the Mediterranean instead of the endless Minneapolis-Detroit-Chicago route, and his thick lips were sensual, his teeth startling white. He exuded a vitality and alertness that was
... See moreKatherine Heiny • Games and Rituals
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the Marquis de Sade, alongside Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H.—
A.K. Blakemore • The Glutton: A Novel
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He could recognize what Leslie Jamison calls that “narrowing of repertoire” that nonetheless comes with widening expectations. This helped explain his disappointment and exhaustion. Because the satisfaction of sexual hunger was really a way of trying to stave off a more fundamental, transcendent hunger, it meant he was always expecting too much, as
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
he had the eyes of an early-waking farmer.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
