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Sigh.

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May Sarton, from “Contemplation of Poussin”, Letters from Maine

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𓂃‿（ ✙ ） ‿𓂃 Cariadore．

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PT: Cariadore: A gender related to cannibalism as a metaphor for love.

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ASK ME ABOUT ROMANTIC / FAMILIAL CANNIBALISM

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Alec Irwin, 'Devoured by God: Cannibalism, Mysticism, and Ethics in Simone Weil'

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Lovers of Human Flesh: Homosexuality and Cannibalism in Melville’s Novels [Caleb Crain, American Literature, 1994]

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“Cannibalism, the most elementary act of exploitation, that of turning the other directly into a comestible; of seeing the other in the most primitive terms of use.”

— Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

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love ouroboros. cannibalization of the divine except you are the cannibal and the divine and the witness watching it

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Consumed, David Cronenberg

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Caroline Bynum, excerpt from Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

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“What are the butcherly delights of meat? These are not sensual but analytical. The satisfaction of scientific curiosity in dissection. A clinical pleasure in the precision with which the process of reducing the living, moving, vivid object to the dead status of the thing is accomplished. The pleasure of watching the spectacle of slaughter that derives from the knowledge one is dissociated from the spectacle; the bloody excitation of the audience in the abattoir, who watch the dramatic transformation act, from living flesh to dead meat, derives from the knowledge they are safe from the knife themselves. There is the technical pleasure of carving and the anticipatory pleasure of the prospect of eating the meat, of the assimilation of the dead stuff, after which it will be humanly transformed into flesh.”

— The Sadeian Woman & the Ideology of Pornography, Angela Carter (via dearorpheus)

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“Food itself is an inherently liminal object because it transgresses the borderlines between the inside and the outside, the Self and the Other.”

— Michael Fuchs and Michael Phillips from “It’s Only Cannibalism if We’re Equals: Carnivorous Consumption and Liminality in Hannibal”; from the Quarterly Review of Film and Video: Vol 35, No 6. (via ligeia-of-the-rhine)

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“And in Sanskrit there is a phrase, a phrase to carry with you wherever you go: sarvam annam: everything is food. Every last thing.”

— -          Teddy Macker 

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To eat is to be implicated in a vast, complex, interweaving set of life and death dramas in which we are only one character among many. No matter how solitary our eating experience may be, every sniff, chomp, and swallow connects us to vast global trade networks and thus to biophysical and social worlds far beyond ourselves. The moment we chew on anything we participate in regional, geographic histories and in biochemical processes that, for all their diversity and complexity, defy our wildest imaginations and most thorough attempts at comprehension. The minute we contemplate or talk about eating, we show ourselves to be involved in culinary traditions and cultural taboos, as well as moral quandaries and spiritual quests. To amend an ecologist’s maxim: we can never only bite into one thing.

Norman Wirzba, Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating

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Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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in summer wounds fester and in winter they ache. another one of life's classic no win scenarios

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when you accidentally smell him for the first time