December 2011
17 posts
“‘No one appreciates you like me,’ he said, and that made me a little...”
– Melting
From "Control"
I gripped the sink with both hands, bent over. I didn’t look at our faces in the mirror. I looked at the black stockings and my skin. I tried not to make noise but I couldn’t help it. He made noise. He whispered to me the entire time. On his lap I leaned back and watched my patch of pubic hair move up and down. There was a faint pink stain on his white shirttail. I couldn’t think of what it was...
Strength and Appetite
Lessing noted what she called “a basic female ruthlessness” in herself, and went on to disdain the notion that gender is, in its essence, “socially constructed.” How, she asked, did she acquire her husband? She stole him from another woman. And how did she feel about that? She felt, she said, that it was “my right”: “When I’ve seen this creature emerge in myself, or in other women, I have felt...
“There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to...”
– Herman Hesse, Demian
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“I had to apologize to him later for the blood, my legs trembling. That’s the...”
– Emptying My Pockets