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Jan 16, 2017
I’d like to scratch blood out of my dreamsJoyce Mansour, “Screams.”
By destroying maternity.
Jan 15, 2017
One Babylonian list of maladies, in grouping the dog bite together with the scorpion sting and the snakebite, describes the canine affliction as “the bite that grows up.” The surviving incantation against this bite use a curious metaphor to describe what the dog’s jaws have left in the wound: the dog’s “semen is carried in his mouth,” and “where it has bitten, it has left its child.”Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, Rabid: The Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus.
Jan 12, 2017
While I screamed without opening my mouthJoyce Mansour, “Screams.”
To let night enter your head.
Jan 9, 2017
-Women are the nearest “other.” The first “other.”Michael Snow, “A Lot of Near Mrs.”
-There is something inside repetition…
Jan 6, 2017
The disease which is passed from mother to daughter is the disease of being female – an abject creature not far removed from the animal world and one dominated totally by her feelings and reproductive functions.Barbara Creed, The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis.
Jan 5, 2017
Divines (Uda Benyamina, 2016)
Jan 5, 2017
As in the night. To penetrate the night is one thing. But to be penetrated by the night. That is to be overtaken.Agnes Martin’s notes for “On the Perfection Underlying Life.”
(Source: anneflournoy.com)
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