‘But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. There is no steady, unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed graduations, and at the last one pause…’
Friday, March 03, 2017
Anne Carson, Decreation
‘Decreation is an undoing of the creature in us - that creature enclosed in self and defined by self. But to undo the self one must move through self, to the very inside of its definition. We have nowhere else to start.’