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sicknessinmotion · 8 months

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YOUR DAD NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU, HE STOPPED SHOWING IT; ON FATHERS

simone de beauvoir // hera lindsay bird // jayn // eula biss // unknown // desireé dallagiacomo // mary ruefle

#on fathers #simone de beauvoir #hera lindsay bird #jayn #eula biss #desireé dallagiacomo #mary ruefle #poetry #quotes #.w #web weaving #writing

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3irons · 7 months

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— the pain scale by eula biss

#one piece #one piece live action #vinsmoke sanji #red leg zeff #taz skylar #eula biss #opla #oplaedit #opedit #opgraphics #onepieceedit #onepiecesource #tvandfilm #mine*#gifs*

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need-grows-teeth · 10 months

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#ethel cain #Web weaving #Ww #religious trauma #daddy issues #Eula biss #ocean vuong #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #phoebe bridgers #Nicola yoon #the sun is also a star #jason todd #bruce wayne

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unalteredgraces · 1 year

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aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz // father and son dancing by brian kershisnik // the pain scale by eula biss // the last of us part II // folding a five-cornered star so the corners meet by li-young lee // x // funeral by phoebe bridgers // trista mateer

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loveakii · 9 months

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#succession #roman roy #kendall roy #shiv roy #logan roy #tom wambsgans #jamaica kincaid #eula biss #web weaving #mine

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woundgallery · 11 months

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Eula Biss from Pain Scale

#eula biss #pain #to have pain is to have certainty #text #literature #nonfiction #body woes

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dk-thrive · 1 month

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I’m filled with a strange unspecific desire. I want everything and nothing.

In the furniture stores we visit, I’m filled with a strange unspecific desire. I want everything and nothing. The soft colors of the rugs, the warm wood grains, the brass and glass of the lamps all seem to suggest that the stores are filled with beautiful things, but when I look at any one thing I don’t find it beautiful. “The desire to consume is a kind of lust,” Lewis Hyde writes. “But consumer goods merely bait this lust, they do not satisfy it. The consumer of commodities is invited to a meal without passion, a consumption that leads to neither satiation nor fire.”

— Eula Biss, Having and Being Had (Riverhead Books, September 1, 2020)

#purchase #consumerism #minimalism #Eula Biss #Lewis Hyde

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hauntedbythenarrative · 2 years

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The Pain Scale, Eula Biss//Otto Hightower and Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon (2022)

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outof1emons · 2 years

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Blueming (2022) // eula biss, the pain scale

#blueming #eula biss the pain scale #eula biss #web weaving #parallels

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malaisequotes · 6 months

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“The problem of pain is that I cannot feel my father's, and he cannot feel mine. This, I suppose, is also the essential mercy of pain.”

The Pain Scale by Eula Biss

#The Pain Scale #Eula Biss #Quote #Book

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prairielights · 1 year

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Having and Being Had

Eula Biss

After years of struggle as a working writer, which included living in Iowa City with curbside furniture, Eula Biss feels pride and relief securing a solid place in the middle class with the purchase of a house in Evanston and prestigious job as a writing professor at Northwestern. She becomes a mother as she enters her middle age. However, her new societal position is uncomfortable for her and the values she is living are problematic. She began a diary, examining her experience in relation to money, gender, class and race. This catalog of observations addresses this moment, and, as with all of her work, is an inspiration for living the examined life.

-Mary

#Eula Biss #Having and Being had #books #prairie lights #Staff Pi

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asoftepiloguemylove · 2 years

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"The problem of pain is that I cannot feel my father's, and he cannot feel mine. This, I suppose, is also the essential mercy of pain."

Eula Biss, The Pain Scale

#eula biss #the pain scale #poetry #poem #quotes #words #writing

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writerly-ramblings · 2 years

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Books Read in August:

1). What about the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Alice McDermott)

2). Having and Being Had (Eula Biss)

3). Languages of Truth: Essays (Salman Rushdie)

4). Why Writing Matters (Nicholas Delbanco)

5). Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)

6). South and West (Joan Didion)

7). The Age of Light (Whitney Scharer)

8). Mystery and Manners (Flannery O’Connor)

9). 13 Little Blue Envelopes (Maureen Johnson)

10). The Summer Before the War (Helen Simonson)

11). Hidden Figures (Margot Lee Shetterly)

#booklr #booklist #my literary life #adult booklr #alice mcdermott #eula biss #salman rushdie #nicholas delbanco #jorge luis borges #joan didion #whitney scharar #flannery o'connor #maureen johnson #helen simonson #margot lee shetterly

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akiraofthefour · 1 year

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The extent to which it is hard to imagine an ethos powerful enough to compete with capitalism, even if that ethos is based on the inherent value of human lives, is suggestive of how successfully capitalism has limited our imaginations.

Eula Biss

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wapisiw · 2 years

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“If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community, it is fair to think of vaccination as a kind of banking of immunity. Contributions to this bank are donations to those who cannot or will not be protected by their own immunity.”

— Eula Biss, On Immunity (p. 19)

#eula biss #on immunity

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tsaricides · 2 months

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and when the essential mercy of pain is that i cannot feel my father's, and he cannot feel mine

#but you're catholic so you're not sure if it's mercy at all.#pain scale by eula biss you will never leave my head

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