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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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Anne Carson _ Eros the Bittersweet
What difference would such power make tosomeone in love? What would the lover ask of time if he were in control?
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Anne Carson _ Eros the Bittersweet
Oral cultures and literate cultures do not think, perceive or fall in
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Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. But his reckoning involves a
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stolen my reasoning mind" {Theognis 1271}. Eros is expropriation. He robs the body of limbs, substance, integrity and leaves the lover, essentially, less. This
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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.
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As a sweet apple turns red on a high branch, high on the highest branch and the applepickersforgot- well, no they didn't forget-were not able to reach
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It was Sappho who likened a girl to an apple … and compared a bridegroom to Achilles. {Orationes 9.16}
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The presence of want awakens in him nostalgia for wholeness. His thoughts turn toward questions
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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be. What is this mode of perception, so different from ordinary perception that it is well described as madness? How is it that when you fall in love you feel as if suddenly you are seeing the world as it really is? A mood of knowledge floats out over your life. You seem to know what is real and what is not. Something is lifting you toward an understanding so complete and clear it makes you jubilant. This mood is no delusion, in Sokrates' belief. It is a glance down into time, at realities you once knew, as staggeringly beautiful as the glance of your beloved {249e-50c}.
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Anne Carson _ Eros the Bittersweet
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 describe 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.
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Anne Carson _ Eros the Bittersweet
When I contemplate the physical spaces that articulate the letters 'I love you' in a written text, I may be led to think about other spaces, for example the space that lies between 'you' in the text and you in my life.
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