ways of putting it...

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In loving him, I saw men encouraging each other to lay down thier arms. In loving him, I saw moving films of stone buildings; I saw a hand in prison dragging snow in from the sill. In loving him, I saw great houses being erected that would soon slide into the waiting and stirring seas. I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life

Wojnarowicz, D. (1991). Close to the knives: A memoir of disintegration. New York: Vintage Books.

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'Adelstrop' is after all about the extraordinary things that can happen when it doesn't occur to you to expect anything, when the express train draws up somewhere 'unwontedly', and a vision suddenly unfolds

Adam Philips on Edward Thomas

Phillips, A. (2015). I fret and fret. [Review of the book Edward Thomas: From Adelstrop to Arras.] London Review of Books, 37(21), 35-36. Retrieved from http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n21/adam-phillips/i-fret-and-fret.

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One feels that we ought to have something to show for all this swag; and we have: we have this farm bought and nearly paid for. Such is poetry when the right people boom it.

Robert Frost on Poetry

Bevis, M. (2015). It is still mañana. [Review of the book The Letters of Robert Frost, Vol. 1: 1886-1920.] London Review of Books, 37(4), 21-24. Retrieved from http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n04/matthew-bevis/it-is-still-manana.

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A peculiar form of rhetoric, which obscures the situation with analytical precision

Robert Stach on The Kafkaesque

Galchen, R. (2014). What kind of funny is he? [Review of the books Kafka: The Years of Insight and Kafka: The Decisive Years.] London Review of Books, 36(23), 5-8. Retrieved from http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n23/rivka-galchen/what-kind-of-funny-is-he.

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The only essential thing for life is forgoing smugness, moving into the house instead of admiring it and hanging garlands around it

Franz Kafka on Life

Galchen, R. (2014). What kind of funny is he? [Review of the books Kafka: The Years of Insight and Kafka: The Decisive Years.] London Review of Books, 36(23), 5-8. Retrieved from http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n23/rivka-galchen/what-kind-of-funny-is-he.

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Kafka himself found Kafka difficult.

Rivka Galchen on Kafka

Galchen, R. (2014). What kind of funny is he? [Review of the books Kafka: The Years of Insight and Kafka: The Decisive Years.] London Review of Books, 36(23), 5-8. Retrieved from http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n23/rivka-galchen/what-kind-of-funny-is-he.

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Kafka often spent half the day lying down, daydreaming.

Rivka Galchen on Kafka

Galchen, R. (2014). What kind of funny is he? [Review of the books Kafka: The Years of Insight and Kafka: The Decisive Years.] London Review of Books, 36(23), 5-8. Retrieved from http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n23/rivka-galchen/what-kind-of-funny-is-he.

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Adults tend to treat boys and girls differently from very early on, but the infant’s bisexuality precedes its own subjective experience of gender. The meaning of gender distinction only comes into focus when an unwelcome new baby arrives – or when the infant fears that it will, as it might have seen happen, say, to its friend – and is either the same or a different sex. Thereafter bisexuality as a subject position, like the feeling of ambivalence, is experienced only fleetingly, as two genders present at the same time. A girl who knows and feels she is a girl experiences herself at the same time as a boy, and vice versa. And, as with ambivalence (but in the case of bisexuality, only after infancy), the complete simultaneity cannot be sustained. The psychic pendulum swings from one to the other, or one dimension remains hidden and subjugated to the other. Because, at one time, we were happily bisexual, this is a both/and, not an either/or position... the dominant mode will shift according to context, or one’s stage of life.

Juliet Mitchell on bisexuality and subjectivity

Mitchell, J. (2014). Love and Hate, Girl and Boy. London Review of Books, 36(21), 11-14. Retrieved from http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n21/juliet-mitchell/love-and-hate-girl-and-boy.

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The desire to transform the world is not uncommon, and there are a number of ways of fulfilling it. One of these is by adopting a certain subjectivity, aggessive or passive, deliberately sought or simply the result of mood, which alters experience of the world, and so transforms it.

Patrick Keiller on transformative subjectivity

Keiller, P. (2014). The Poetic Experience of Townscape and Landscape. In View from the train: Cities and other landscapes. London: Verso.

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"There is a tragic structure to subject formation."

Judith Butler on Subjectivity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF5mYvjDp3U

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"Philosophy is... the critical work thought brings to bear on itself... [it is] an 'ascesis', an exercise of oneself in the activity of thought"

Michel Foucault on Philosophy

Foucault, M. (1990). The use of pleasure. New York: Vintage Books.

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Her notion of a style ‘which makes its impact a fraction later that the literal meaning’ … like ‘He looked as if he would murder me and he did’

Muirel Spark on Style

Tayler, C. (2014). Uncuddly. [Review of the book The Golden Fleece: Essays.] London Review of Books, 36(18), 21-23. Retrieved from http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n18/christopher-tayler/uncuddly.

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Popova, L. (1917). "Painterly Architectonic"

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