Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Incantare”
[Text ID: “Someone has replaced your heart / with raw meat. / That delicacy. I’m working on a trick / where I come across sated. / Where I don’t remember how to be ravenous.”]
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There was a knock at the door. Three simple raps, nothing more. The silence that descended after seemed odd, settling into the room about them like the first frigid snow of winter. Laxus had the feeling he’d been caught doing something he shouldn’t, like a child playing with hexes to see if they were real.
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Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"
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Emma (2020)
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"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Because it is only that which we desire that makes us truly feel alive.
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“My son,” There was an implacable violence held between Its teeth, like more than anything It wanted to reach forward and snap his head between Its jaws and only one thin thread remained left to hold It back, “Did you not know that there are worse things than death?”
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pros of pain: you might find god there
cons of pain: you might find god there
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Martha Nussbaum, introduction to C. K. William’s The Bacchae of Euripides
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8.3.'24
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