Status Updates From Agua viva

Clarice! Clarice, my darling! I am drinking you in. All of you, into my bloodstream like the poison I never knew about and cannot now live without. I am sucking the IV drip dry—your words being the sterile water.

You don’t understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

mind u i’m on page 8 and i can already tell this is a masterpiece. is it that i like a challenge and it makes it worth my while? maybe, but clarice lispector gets it, i feel like i’m looking at myself in a mirror.