Bright Existence

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• —You lay down in your bed for ten years, and after ten years you got up. The room was full of weak color but there was an interesting little hill of rich life from which all things streamed; and you saw between existence and the fringe of your quotes non- being on the wall an active shadow that could not reconcile itself to earth and was not ironical, that is, not split; but nothing could be done without some cooperation between this shadow and whatever refused it in this world so you invited it in— dark existence that comforts and terrifies— bright existence that could not stay— (查看原文)

  Ja 2023-07-12 00:42:51

• (3) I watch the young butcher flipping over the young chicken: he takes one wing and sort of spins it, first on its back, flinging the trimmed, watery lemon-colored fat into the trash, then before he starts on the legs he puts his hand so deeply in that the finger comes out the neck . . . The other butcher sets the slab of beef under the saw: the riveting intricate swirl as the dead flesh pulls away; he goes off, shouts short words from the deep freeze— to me or to the carcass hanging by the shank?— I can wait, but the spaces can’t, there’s a slight ticking, then the carcass swings and swings . . . Somehow I thought we would know everything through the flesh. Perhaps. But my days have become spirit. The young butcher splits the chicken down the back, seems to enjoy the crack of the knife a... (查看原文)

  Ja 2023-07-12 00:46:27

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