May 23, 2017
Delicate, witty, brutal. Woolf does it all, at the speed of light.
Maggie Gee, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan.
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Delicate, witty, brutal. Woolf does it all, at the speed of light.
Maggie Gee, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan.
As I slept a jet slammed into a tower block. The jet was almost empty but two hundred people were fried in their sleep.
Everyone has to give up what they never had - yet the form of giving it up is nonetheless essential. This is perhaps also the best definition of castration: to give up what one never had, that is to say, to transform the "minus one" which comes with the signifying order into something that we have renounced; to transform what we never had into something lost
Wat wel telde, was dat ik ergens in werd meegesleept en dat daarin iets besloten lag dat belangrijk voor me was. Ik wilde heel graag weten wat dat was.
Er was geen opwindender combinatie van bedreiging en bevrijding denkbaar.
- kortom, het was een opwindende, vrolijke en al met al nogal vervelende lunch zoals eigenlijk alle lunches.
Overigens: welke vertaler, ja welke auteur, die geen rund is (ik ben alweer in de stal!) beschouwt zijn werk anders dan met het knagende gevoel van ontevredenheid met zichzelf, …
(Naar het centrum gaan, dagdromen, zichzelf vingeren en wachten, mogelijke samenvatting van een jeugd in de provincie.)