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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    It is generally anger dreams that occupy my nights now.This is not uncommon after loss of love-blue and black and red blasting the crater open.I am interested in anger.
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  6. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    Unsociable even at homeand unable to meet the eyes of strangers when she ventured out,Emily made her awkward way across days and years whose bareness appalls her biographers.
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  7. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    Emily is in the parlour brushing the carpet,"records Charlotte in 1828.Unsociable even at home
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  8. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    A thousand questions hit my eyes from the inside.
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  9. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    I had not been in love before.It was like a wheel rolling downhill.
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  10. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    So about an hour later we are in the taxishooting along empty country roads towards town.The April light is clear as an alarm.As we pass them it gives a sudden sense of every objectexisting in space on its own shadow.I wish I could carry this clarity with meinto the hospital where distinctions tend to flatten and coalesce.I wish I had been nicer to him before he got crazy.These are my two wishes.
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  11. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    Isaiah go home and get some sleep, said God.Isaiah went home, slept, woke again. Isaiah felt a sensation below the neck, it was a silk and bitter sensation.Isaiah looked down.It was milk forcing the nipples open. Isaiah was more than whole. I am not with you am in you, said the muffled white voice of God.
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  12. Anne Carson _ Glass, Irony and God

    You remember too much,my mother said to me recently.Why hold onto all that? And I said,Where can I put it down?She shifted to a question about airports.
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