― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson, from ‘The Beauty of the Husband’
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had I never
seen or known your
kindness
what might I
have been.
— Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
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the beauty of the husband - anne carson
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He could fill structures of
threat with a light like the earliest olive oil. I began to understand *nature*
as something seamed and deep into which one plunged, going dark.
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Chaim Soutine Flayed Rabbit (Le Lapin écorché)
Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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— Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
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The tenderness between us
our discussion
playful arguments
quarrels
intoxicating reconciliation.
Ebba Witt-Brattström, Love/War, translated by Kate Lambert
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Well life has some risks. Love is one. Terrible risks.
Anne Carson, from ‘The Beauty of the Husband’
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If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it.
— Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
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What if a devil long after sacrifice
starts coming and going on the borderland —
just a crease in daylight.
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finishing the beauty of the husband feeling like i’ve casually impaled myself 29 times
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from anne carson’s (amazing) the beauty of the husband 😭 i worship her ok…
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