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  1. Anne Carson _ Grief Lessons: Four Plays by

    Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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  2. Anne Carson _ Grief Lessons: Four Plays by

    Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it's dark to me.We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing{whatever it is} that glitters on the earth--we call it life. We know no other.The underworld's a blankand all the rest just fantasy.
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  3. Anne Carson _ Grief Lessons: Four Plays by

    There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you-may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch {yourself} act out the present or possible organization of your nature. You can be aware of your own awareness of this nature as you never are at the moment of experience. The actor, by reiterating you, sacrifices a moment of his own life in order to give you a story of yours.
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  4. Anne Carson _ Grief Lessons: Four Plays by

    Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.There's no one alivewho can say if he will be tomorrow.Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery.No one can teach it, no one can grasp it.Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink!But don't forget Aphrodite--that's You can let the rest go. Am I making sense?I think so. How about a drink.Put on a garland. I'm surethe happy splash of wine will cure your mood.We're all mortal you know. Think mortal.Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,
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    Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time."
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  6. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    The basic rules of male-female relationswere imparted atmospherically in our family,no direct speech allowed.
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  7. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    Banal sexism aside,I find myself temptedto read as one thick stacked act of revengefor all that life withheld from Emily.But the poetry shows traces of a deeper explanation.As if anger could be a kind of vocation for some women.It is a chilly thought.
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  8. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    My mother always closes her bedroom drapes tight before going to bed at night.I open mine as wide as possible.I like to see everything, I say.What's there to see?Moon. Air. Sunrise.All that light on your face in the morning. Wakes you up.I like to wake up.
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  9. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover isto watch the year repeat its days.It is as if I could dip my hand downinto time and scoop upblue and green lozenges of April heata year ago in another country.I can feel that other day running underneath this onelike an old videotape
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    You know who I am. You know my naked power.
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  11. Anne Carson _ Men in the Off Hours

    As tree shapes from mist / Her young death / Loose / In you.
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  12. Anne Carson _ Eros the Bittersweet

    ... η ιστορία σου αρχίζει τη στιγμή που ο Έρωτας εισβάλλει μέσα σου. Αυτή η εισβολή είναι ο μεγαλύτερος κίνδυνος της ζωής σου. Το πώς τη χειρίζεσαι είναι δείκτης της ποιότητας, της σοφίας και της ευγένειας που έχεις μέσα σου. Καθώς τη χειρίζεσαι, έρχεσαι σ' επαφή με τα όσα κρύβεις μέσα σου, μ' έναν τρόπο αιφνίδιο και εκπληκτικό. Αντιλαμβάνεσαι τι είσαι, τι σου λείπει, τι θα μπορούσες να είσαι."
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