Dear Doug
On Tue, February 14, 2012 17:52, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> This is interesting for the way it suggests an articulate awareness in
> the woman that seesm perhaps more modern? It rings, though.
Yes. That's right. I don't know how one gos about losing the modern
awareness.
I think a lot of _it_ is there in old and ancient writing; but what is the
other factor? Awareness of self?
It's something that I have talked about on and off with a good friend and
we go in circles and have another coffee. Something shifted and I am
damned if I know what or when.
So I've just gone with it and use what little I know of human psychology
as I know it, but without modern tech
> Shouldnt there be an end quotation mark?
Yes.
Thank you.
And thank you.
L
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> Doug
> On 2012-02-14, at 4:36 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> “Oh I detest you,” she says; “I hate you.
>> All this grabbing! I am not for breeding
>> with the vulgar, like some godless animal. I am not for penetration,
>> fucking, like a pot poked out dry with ladle and bread.
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>> My body is something else than you imagine.
>> You break it. You corpse it. You piss on it,
>> trying to seed me! You shall not prevail.
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>> Nor I – I’ll not be ceded – carrying child,
>> bringing your disease to term. Forget me as I forgive myself, being too
>> dull; and breakable; and pliant; and other earth matter. Let me grow; and
>> shine; and ring; and be alone.
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