“She held him secretly, possessively, in her heart with such a strength of passion that at times it was hard to believe that he was a separate person with other concerns who knew and cared nothing about how she felt.”
— Iris Murdoch, from The Philosopher’s Pupil
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Aerodynamic Chair, 1934, Salvador Dali
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In the Wheats Pendant by Rosie Grace Ward
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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles
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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1963
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Nikki Giovanni, from The Collected Poems of Nikki Giovannii; “Poem,” c. 1969
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anne carson come here. did you ever find out where you could put it down
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.. L'Archangélique, Georges Bataille..
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Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrams; “In The Dugout,”
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“When I’d first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior. I wanted to see him far more naked than he was with his clothes off.”
— Angela Carter, from “Flesh and the Mirror,” Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
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“Handle with Care” by Mick McGinty, 1980s
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Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)
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