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Sheparism

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"Until the sun falls from the sky and the heavens burn in conflagration"
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I am no longer posting stuff here but feel free to look around.

Ya no voy a postear nada aquí pero quédense a mirar un rato si les gusta lo que hay. 

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The word ‘jealousy’ comes from the Greek zēlos meaning 'zeal’ or 'fervent pursuit.’ It is a hot and corrosive spiritual motion arising in fear and fed on resentment.

Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson (via poetess-audrey-stardust)

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ghoulchantsister
When we think about this remarkable invention of the Greek alphabet and think about how a human mind operates when it uses the alphabet, the remarkable operations of eros stand forward for comparison. We have already detected an ancient analogy between language and love, implicit in the conception of breath as universal conductor of seductive influences and persuasive speech. Here at the entrance to written language and literate thinking we see that analogy revivified by the archaic writers who first ventured to record their poems. The alphabet they used is a unique instrument. Its uniqueness unfolds directly from its power to mark the edges of sound. For, as we have seen, the Greek alphabet is a phonetic system uniquely concerned to represent a certain aspect of the act of speech, namely the starting and stopping of each sound. Consonants are the crucial factor. Consonants mark the edges of sound. The erotic relevance of this is clear, for we have seen that eros is vitally alert to the edges of things and makes them felt by lovers. As eros insists upon the edges of human beings and of the spaces between them, the written consonant imposes edge on the sounds of human speech and insists on the reality of that edge, although it has its origin in the reading and writing imagination.

Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet, 55. (via ghoulchantsister)

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Think how much energy, time and emotion goes into that effort of learning: it absorbs years of your life and dominates your self-esteem; it informs much of your subsequent endeavor to grasp and communicate with the world. Think of the beauty of letters and how it feels to come to know them.

Anne Carson, on learning to read. From Eros the Bittersweet, 55. (via ghoulchantsister)

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