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crueldesire · 4 months
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eros the bittersweet, anne carson / saltburn (2023) dir. emerald fennell
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selkielore · 1 year
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metamorphesque · 2 years
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—  Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
[text ID: When I desire you a part of me is gone.]
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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[…] erotic mania is a valuable thing in private life. It puts wings on your soul. 
Anne Carson, from ‘Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay’
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orpheuslament · 7 months
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Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson
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elektramouthed · 1 year
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 There is something uniquely convincing about the perceptions that occur to you when you are in love. They seem truer than other perceptions, and more truly your own, won from reality at personal cost. Greatest certainty is felt about the beloved as necessary complement to you. Your powers of imagination connive at this vision, calling up possibilities from beyond the actual. All at once a self never known before, which now strikes you as the true one, is coming into focus. A gust of godlikeness may pass through you and for an instant a great many things look knowable, possible and present. Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what is lacking in the actual.
Anne Carson, from Eros the Bittersweet
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sprachgitter · 8 months
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When I desire you, a part of me is gone: my want of you partakes of me. So reasons the lover at the edge of eros. The presence of want awakens in him nostalgia for wholeness. His thoughts turn toward questions of personal identity: he must recover and reincorporate what is gone if he is to be a complete person.
— Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
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litandlifequotes · 27 days
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When you are falling in love it is always already too late: dēute, as the poets say.
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
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diana-andraste · 4 months
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It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.
Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
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a-book-is-a-garden · 10 months
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“In fact, neither reader nor writer nor lover achieves such consumation. The words we read and the words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”
Anne Carson, “Eros the Bittersweet”
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hamletofficial · 10 months
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“Literate training encourages a heightened awareness of personal physical boundaries and a sense of those boundaries as the vessel of one’s self. To control the boundaries is to possess oneself. For individuals to whom self-possession has become important, the influx of a sudden, strong emotion from without cannot be an unalarming event, as it may be in an oral environment where such incursions are the normal conductors of most of the important information that a person receives.
When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his person, an influx like eros becomes a concrete personal threat.
So in the lyric poets, love is something that assaults or invades the body of the lover to wrest control of it from him, a personal struggle of will and physique between the god and his victim. The poets record this struggle from within a consciousness—perhaps new in the world—of the body as a unity of limbs, senses and self, amazed at its own vulnerability.”
- Anne Carson, Eros the bittersweet.
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crueldesire · 3 months
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eros the bittersweet, anne carson / saltburn (2023) dir. emerald fennell
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benitariums · 1 month
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metamorphesque · 2 years
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― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
[text ID: To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.]
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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To create pleasure and pain at once is the novelist’s aim. 
Anne Carson, from ‘Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay’
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orpheuslament · 7 months
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Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson
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