Sublime

“pluralize and specify.”

For once we truly acknowledge that there are other people in the world—which is harder to do than it sounds—we must reckon with the fact that we cannot control them, even as we depend upon them (Phillips).

‘This is where you end and others begin.’

But they can also condition us into thinking of freedom as a future achievement rather than as an unending present practice, something already going on.

But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology.

The detective and the dreamer cobble things together from whatever lies nearby,

Rather, it is the shared, crushing understanding of what it means to live in a patriarchy.

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