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  1. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    Your separateness could kill you unless I take it from you as a sickness.
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  2. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    I am not a person who feels easy talking about blood or desire. I rarely used the word woman myself. But such things are the natural facts of what we are, I suppose we have to follow out these signs in the endless struggle against forgetting. The truth is, I lived out my adolescence mainly in default of my father's favor. But I perceived that I could trouble him less if I had no gender.
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  3. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right.
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  4. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    Youth is a dream where I go every night and wake with just this little jumping bunch of arteries in my hand.
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  5. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    Pilgrims were people in scientific exile.
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  6. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.
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  7. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun.
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  8. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    We live by waters breaking out of the heart.
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  9. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns that battle on, there are towns where the snow slides from the roofs of the houses with such force that victims are killed, but there are not empty towns {just empty scholars} and there is no regret. Now move along.
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  10. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends his life drawing profiles will end up believing that man has one eye, Braque felt. Braque wanted to take full possession of objects. He said as much in published interviews. Watching the small shiny planes of the landscape recede out of his grasp filled Braque with loss so he smashed them. Nature morte, said Braque.
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  11. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    Your voice I know. It had me terrified. When I hear it in dreams, from time to time all my life, it sounds like a taunt-but dreams distort sound, for they send it over many waters. During these hard days, I, a pilgrim, am giving my consideration to this. I trudge along the bottom of the river and the questioning goes on in me. What are we made of but hunger and rage? His heels rise and fall in front of me. How surprised I am to be entangled in the knowledge of some other animal.
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  12. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    Order streamed from Noah in blue triangles and as the pure fury of his classifications rose around him, engulfing his life, they came to be called waves by others, who drowned, a world of them.
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