no one stepped in, but i would've
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Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)
[Text ID: I say: How is this my concern? I'm a spectator / He says: No spectators at chasm's door ... and no / one is neutral here. And you must choose / your part in the end]
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Michael Cunningham, from “The Hours,” originally published c. 1998
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Sophocles, Elektra, trans. Anne Carson [1123-1140].
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sideshow
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sun bleached flies by ethel cain + gerard way as joan of arc
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David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest | 1996
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“I am aflame. Around me, everything dies.”
— Camille Rankine, from “Self-Portrait as Allegory,” published in jubilat
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— Paul Guest, from “1987.”
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Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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I burn like nothing you've seen.
Kristy Bowen, from “brief history of a girl as match.”
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