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another thing that is just so.....perfect becuz i’ve been here i know this unrepentant serenity of having done hurt as other people make demands of you while accusing you of making demands of them is this bit
And Elīya can’t help but wonder: what does Tamar know? Is she somehow aware of all the thoughts Elīya’s managed to have, following from that statement, nothing’s stopping you? Was this intentional on Tamar’s part? Did she—
“No,” Tamar says.
Elīya twitches, lets out a sharp breath.
“Still can’t read specific thoughts, but you’re feeling played, and I’ll have you know, I didn’t play you. Don’t give me that much credit.”
just!!!!!! that echo throughout the entire story of tamar being, to other people (lucifer and eliya especially), someone (thing) who is about them instead of about her, to project false narratives onto, or assign malice or intent or punishing or agency or caring or manipulation or compassion or guilt or affection or any other thing except Her.
and yet, at the same time, her intense simple uninterested truthful-to-herself her-ness does in fact elicit more true thought and momentum in other people than anything or anyone does. the litmus test that inspires reactions that say more about the one who sees her than about her herself (like G-d like G-d literally just like G-d both sehhinah G-d and jewish G-d!!!), and she she she she she (standing before the lord of song with nothing on her tongue but) so so so simply sure in her self-aware acceptance of what she knows so far and her ability to know what comes that—
I’ve told the truth / I didn’t come to fool you....
thinking like a long repeating prayersong cantillation: tamartamartamartamar........she is so big-in-herself, so marked-with-herself, but more than that or perhaps actually the reason for that or because of that or both in am ourosbourous: so truthful-to-herself. preceding her Looking at the face of G-d as she rares up erezel plateau wantingwantingwanting, in the moment she begs G-d to let her see, and in every thought and word and act she makes even years afterwards — she is so truthful-to-herself, an infinitely singularity-intense honestysureness in what she knows even if the only single tiny needle-slender thing she knows is that she does want, because she Will Not lie to herself either by omission by denying the want she does know, nor by commission in making up untruthful ideas to fill those yawning embarrassing gaps of of why does she want and who she is who wants, that she doesn’t know.
and it is this infinitely full-in-herself, condensed-in-herself, truthfulness to herself that makes her like unto G-D.
another leonard cohen song i think reminds me of holies (though not really tamar) is Born In Chains, if you’re familiar with it
oh yes! the pov of a very very different sort of person and holy than tamar, hmmm perhaps a younger safira? given their hinted process of like....either undergoing or observing a gauntlet of disappointment/false impressions and need for re-contextualizing and articulated writing about holies instead of annoying bankrupt projecting (hannusa or havilah) or half-cocked insanity (tamar)
butttt the chorus and the very last verse in particular i think would be perhaps more universal in-universe, especially in the reference to soul-stuff:
[chorus] Word of Words And Measure of all Measures Blessed is the Name The Name be blessed Written on my heart In burning Letters That's all I know I cannot read the rest
[verse] I’ve heard the soul unfolds In the chambers of its longing And the bitter liquor sweetens In the hammered cup But all the Ladders Of the Night have fallen Only darkness now To lift the Longing up
tamartamartamartamartamarTAMAR.......