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Max is on page 31 of 117 of Perfection
Later on they would fall asleep breathing in each oth­er’s smell, whispering little jokes, sweet nothings, plans for the next day. But really what they were saying was a prayer, a silent and strangely solemn prayer for things to remain exactly as they were. It was always answered.
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Perfection

Max
Max is on page 25 of 117 of Perfection
They loved their families and were nostalgic for the streets they had grown up on, but that fondness would quickly give way to a feel­ ing of stasis and estrangement. Entering the departures terminal, each time they would glance at themselves in the glass doors and think back to the picture they had tak­ en when they left. The comparison never failed to move them. They were so different now.
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Max
Max is on page 21 of 117 of Perfection
Did they like the job? Yes, but they would reformulate the question. They did for money now what they used to do out of passion. This was a fact. From this fact they concluded that they had turned their passion into a job. This was a deduction.
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Max
Max is on page 19 of 117 of Perfection
The cliques were hotbeds of gossip; conformist attitudes fostered what Anna and Tom felt to be stifling expectations. And among those people – who never changed, who were content to hang out in the same sets they belonged to at school – Anna and Tom weren’t free to be themselves, or rather, they weren’t free to reinvent themselves.
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Max is on page 13 of 117 of Perfection
— Jun 09, 2026 10:07PM 1 comment
Perfection

Max
Max is on page 10 of 117 of Perfection
Sunlight floods the room from the bay window, reflects off the wide, honey-coloured floorboards and casts an emer­ ald glow over the perforate leaves of a monstera shaped like a cloud. Its stems brush the back of a Scandinavian armchair, an open magazine left face-down on the seat.
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Perfection


Max
Max is on page 46 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Without seduction by the atopic Other, which sparks erotic desire, thinking withers into mere work, which always reproduces the Same. Calculating thought lacks the negativity of atopia. It is work on the positive. No negativity inspires disquiet or unrest in it.
— Jun 07, 2026 02:41PM Add a comment
The Agony of Eros

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Max is on page 44 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
In contrast, love as an event—as a “Two scene”—is dehabitualizing and denarcissifying. […] Eros manifests itself as the revolutionary yearning for an entirely different way of loving and another kind of society. Thereby, it remains faithful to what is yet to come.

… but how?
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The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 40 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
When borders and thresholds vanish, fantasies of the Other disappear too.
Without the negativity of thresholds or threshold-experiences, fantasy withers. The contemporary crisis in literature and the arts stems from a crisis of fantasy: the disappearance of the Other. This is the agony of eros.
— Jun 06, 2026 10:09AM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 38 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Desire is not “rationalized” today by increasing opportunities for, and criteria of, choice. Instead, unchecked freedom of choice is threatening to bring about the end of desire. Desire is always desire for the Other. The negativity of privation and absence nourishes it. As the object of desire, the Other escapes the positivity of choice.
— Jun 06, 2026 10:01AM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros


Max
Max is on page 34 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
However, nudity that is displayed without secrecy or expression approaches pornographic bareness. What is more, the pornographic face says nothing. It has no expressivity or mystery. […] In contrast, the erotic is never free of secrecy.
— Jun 05, 2026 10:10AM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 25 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Capitalism absolutizes bare life. Its telos is not the good life. Capitalism’s compulsive accumulation and growth is specifically aimed against death, which counts as absolute loss. For Aristotle, merely accumulating capital merits scorn because it has no concern for the good life—only for bare life.
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The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 23 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Today, through the increasing positivization and domestication of love, it is disappearing entirely. One stays the same and seeks only the confirmation of oneself in the Other.
— Jun 05, 2026 08:26AM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros



Max
Max is on page 20 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Erotic desire is tied to a particular absence of the Other—not the absence of nothingness, but rather “absence in a horizon of the future.”
— Jun 03, 2026 10:51PM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros



Max
Max is on page 17 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt and default. It offers no possibility for atonement, which would free the debtor from liability. The impossibility of mitigation and atonement also accounts for the achievement-subject’s depression.
— Jun 03, 2026 09:51AM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 11 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Depression is a narcissistic malady. It derives from overwrought, pathologically distorted self-reference. The narcissistic-depressive subject has exhausted itself and worn itself down. Without a world to inhabit, it has been abandoned by the Other. Eros and depression are opposites. Eros pulls the subject out of itself, toward the Other. Depression, in contrast, plunges the subject into itself.
— Jun 01, 2026 09:44PM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 10 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
In recent years, the end of love has been announced many times.
— Jun 01, 2026 09:30AM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 298 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
Mom made it very clear she had no interest in changing. If she were still alive, she’d still be trying her best to manipulate me into being who she wants me to be. I’d still be purging or restricting or binging or some combination of the three and she’d still be endorsing it.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 281 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
I’m confused and sad that he didn’t reach out to me first. I will never know for sure if he wanted to meet me, or if he’s just saying it because that’s what you’re supposed to say.
— May 27, 2026 02:28PM Add a comment
I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 227 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
The years that you’re supposed to spend you’re supposed to spend building character, I was spending building characters.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 183 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don’t. And whenever I encounter someone who doesn’t, I disregard the them.
— May 22, 2026 12:41PM Add a comment
I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 110 of 168 of Madonna in a Fur Coat
’I actually don’t really enjoy dancing, but sometimes the person I’m dancing with does and so I find a way to bear it.’
‘I’m not sure I’ll like it.’
‘Neither am I … but never mind, friendship is all about making sacrifices.’
— May 21, 2026 05:49AM Add a comment
Madonna in a Fur Coat


Max
Max is on page 107 of 168 of Madonna in a Fur Coat
”When love spreads, it does not diminish.”
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Madonna in a Fur Coat

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