>And what makes them so bad
> is so close to what otherwise makes his writing compelling.
There is the Lacanian insight, if insight it be, that the thing one
finds attractive about someone at the start of an affair is
fundamentally the thing one will find unbearable about them at the end
of it. DHL perhaps compresses the whole procedure into a dizzy-making
simultaneity. Odi et amo - or laus et vituperatio...
Dominic
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