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What love does not begin

at first sight?

Kim Echlin, Inanna: From the Myths of Ancient Sumer

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You opened the door, said Norea. A man should die off after the first romance like mine did. Is mór an trua é.

Kim Echlin, Dagmar's Daughter (2001)

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Review | Inanna: A New English Version, translated by Kim Echlin

Review | Inanna: A New English Version, translated by Kim Echlin

Title: Inanna: A New English Version

Translator: Kim Echlin

Published by: Penguin Canada

Where I got the book: Public Library

My rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Content Warning: Rape, Murder

  Before we have novels, we have poetry. Before poetry, we have tax records and other business related writings, but those aren’t super riveting to read. (Except for the complaint tablet to Ea-nasir which is…

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The Disappeared - Kim Echlin

i got semi Ahab’s Wife vibes here.

i went into this not knowing exactly what it’s about, and i’m glad.

i am so glad.

yet at the same time, i am not.

Warning: spoilers may be lurking in the shadows below.

i love that the dead are cherished long after their passing.

but i do not love that there is no continuation of life.

in anne, after serey, there is stagnation, there is an emptiness, a stillness, a separation, a cessation

anne does not continue without serey

which i suppose is understood; some people never really regain themselves without the other person.

but i don’t think that it’s.. the best? i don’t think that that’s a message i want to promote, that there is only one person ever that one can live for.

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Sometimes the things that draw people together are the same things that rips them apart.

The Disappeared, Kim Echlin

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I saw the world more sharply with you, as if I had put on new lenses, the left a little stronger than the right, but worn together they shaped blurred edges into clear lines.

 The Disappeared, Kim Echlin

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Do they not see where force leads? ... Force turns the one subjected to it into a thing.

 The Disappeared, Kim Echlin

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What I learned from my mother was that those we love can disappear suddenly, inexplicably. And then there is nothing.

 The Disappeared, Kim Echlin