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      Catawba Falls: campsite 124. A sign nailed to a pine read many rare plants. Do not trample. Susan asked ready to unpack? Although the river was tame enough to swim, we boated. Don insisted on building a fire, sent Anthony trotting off into the woods for kindling. At the picnic table, Susan chopped an onion for chili. I boiled a pot of water ( Read more... )

“As a rule, a work is considered to touch on the theme of feminism when its leading characters are women and are repressed or in rebellion, but as far as I am concerned, a work is feminist insofar as it attempts to explain the mechanics of cruelty, oppression, and violence through a story that is developed in a world in which men and women exist.”

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"Its not so bad," the professor said. "It only isn't wonderful. Nobody has an obligation to be wonderful."

"Deleuze was not a philosopher of negation but affirmation... together with Guttari he elaborated a conception of desire itself no longer based in sacrifice or privation, working instead as a kind of great connection-machine."

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"keep only what increases connections"

Anthony’s apartment bordered a burned out pecan farm. At dusk, he called: come watch the magnolias drop. Sprawled on the floor of his living room, we stared out at the trees, ordered take-in. Four chimichangas, a burrito the size of my head. With our mouths full of salt and grease, we talked about Anais Nin and Henry Miller. I loved Anais most of ( Read more... )

    
       Thursday night. Don walked into the living room she’ll be home late. And in almost the same breath: want to smoke a little before bed? I nodded, followed him down the hall, into the bathroom. Along the bottom of the door, he placed a wet, rolled-up towel. Opened the window. With no room to turn or sit, we leaned against the back wall, ( Read more... )

"even if she could hear the ambulances, why would she take them personally."

"it was so beautiful, life, goddamn death"

Cross-Legged,
the Spider and the Web

with this body worship her
if necessary arrange
to sit before her parts
and if she object as she might
ask her for your sake to cover
her head but stare to blindness
better than the sun look until
you know look look keep looking until
you do know you do know

Charles Olson