Kaplan Harris

“It is impossible to grieve in the first-person singular. We always grieve for someone and with someone. Grieving connects us in ways that are subtly and candidly material. I am not yet sure which group I should join, where to envision myself, on whose shoulder to cry.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

“Anything can be tarnished by association, and if you have enough associations you can blacken the world.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“Wherefore with my utmost art
I will sing thee,
And the cream of all my heart
I will bring thee.”
― George Herbert, George Herbert: The Complete English Poems

“The rematerialization of our worlds in times of deceleration forces questions that are political at their very root: Who else has touched this object that I am touching? Which is another way of asking: Where does it come from, who produces it, in what conditions of exploitation or sanitation is this thing in my hands created, with what quantity of virus?”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country