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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 15:16

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As far as the dead are concerned, chronology has no import and all that matters are the details, the degree of density, this how and what and everything to do with who.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 15:06

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Going deeper requires a loss of control, requires the abandonment of that constant surveillance of time and space in exchange for a headlong fall inside oneself, or into somebody else, or down one of life’s many cracks and fissures.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 14:39

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She adapted to such a degree that what defined her personality was an absence of personality.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 13:02

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“Getting stuck,” she called it, while I called it “getting attached,” the distance between these two concepts a cornerstone of our conversations, her fear of “getting stuck” and my tendency to “get attached.”

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 12:13

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There was no place I’d rather be than in the details next to all this information, all this surface.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 11:43

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“Unhinged”—what does that mean anyway, other than an ability to drive people crazy, disrupting their worlds?

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 11:43

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That’s what a capital city might offer a “fucking unhinged” person in exchange for what she gave us: parties, warmth, chaos, scoldings, a thousand things to irritate us, and the self-knowledge brought by that irritation.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 11:42

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I knew almost nothing about writing, but there was one thing I did know: for me, the process had to be as tightly sealed as the distillate in the cone-shaped vessel on the stove; I knew that every leakage meant death, that the magic disappeared if I looked too closely, that nothing could be divulged before it was done.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 11:42

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Her psychiatric approach to life’s spiritual dimensions, her worship of dirt and shame and the pull she felt from the underworld.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 11:41

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In my world Birgitta Trotzig is the literary counterpart to the blurred picture you can find on a TV screen. It seems like there’s something interesting going on there, but I can’t tell what.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 11:41

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Chaotic world I couldn’t access, where emotions were the gods that decided almost everything and where anger could result in plates being thrown and where a new passion might entail a journey across the world at two days’ notice.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 11:40

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It’s turned into one of those books you own without ever reading, a phenomenon you’ll come across in most people’s homes: an assurance for tomorrow, a future where you’ll have time to read.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 11:40

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TV means that somebody else is trying to control my gaze, whereas books leave me to my own devices.

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krupatato

5 апреля 2024 г., 11:39

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It was as if something was perpetually tugging her downward, toward the underworld, the mess, the dirt, and the filth, as if she was unable to feel disgust when others did and was overwhelmed by fascination instead.

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krupatato

4 апреля 2024 г., 19:17

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The words for “forgiveness” and “freedom” are the same in several languages.

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krupatato

4 апреля 2024 г., 19:04

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To read with a fever is a lottery; the contents of the text will either dissolve or penetrate deep into the cracks accidentally opened by an out-of-control temperature.

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krupatato

4 апреля 2024 г., 18:47

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There might have been a certain violence to the way she gifted, a triumphant supremacy that was affirmed each time she slid a rectangular box across the table.

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