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Eros the Bittersweet
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
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Eros the Bittersweet
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge {and so knowable in some degree} but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge {not identical with these}. In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.
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