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Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.” If Elizabeth really believed this, I thought, there was nothing but disappointment in her future.
“My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don’t know who my brother. In war I don’t know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can say what lies inside the heart of each one of us when everything is taken away.”
― The Little Red Chairs
― The Little Red Chairs
“But at my back in a cold blast I hear / the rattle of bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for today
Adjudicate
Legislate
Scandalize
Capitalize
here are Kreon's nouns
Men
Reason
Treason
Death
Ship of State
Mine
Chorus: "mine" isn't a noun
Kreon: it is if you capitalize it”
― Antigonick
Adjudicate
Legislate
Scandalize
Capitalize
here are Kreon's nouns
Men
Reason
Treason
Death
Ship of State
Mine
Chorus: "mine" isn't a noun
Kreon: it is if you capitalize it”
― Antigonick
“You would not believe how many words there are for 'home' and what savage music there can be wrung from it.”
― The Little Red Chairs
― The Little Red Chairs
“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem
from the last years of her life that begins
"I lose my screams"
dear Antigone,
I take it as the task of the translator
to forbid that you should ever lose your screams”
― Antigonick
from the last years of her life that begins
"I lose my screams"
dear Antigone,
I take it as the task of the translator
to forbid that you should ever lose your screams”
― Antigonick
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