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I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart. I think I was then imagining that the net effect of becoming one of those people would be one of accretion. Whereas if you truly become someone on whom nothing is lost, then loss will not be lost upon you, either.
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Girls are cruelest to themselves," observes Anne Carson in "The Glass Essay," her brilliant long poem about the ravages of female anger, loneliness, grief, and desire, giving us as poetic adage what any number of other fields give us as statistic."
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Perhaps because I have spent hours sermonizing to students about the sins of the passive voice--how it can obfuscate meaning, deaden vitality, and abandon the task of assigning agency or responsibility--I find the grammar of justice maddening. It's always "rendered," "served," or "done." It always swoops down from on high--from God, from the state--like a bolt of lightning, a flaming sword come to separate the righteous from the wicked in E..
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Ik vind het grootmoedig van Butler dat ze de diffuse 'commodificatie van identiteit' aanmerkt als het probleem. Ik zou, minder grootmoedig, willen zeggen dat het simpele feit dat ze lesbisch is voor sommige mensen al het overige naar de achtergrond dringt, dat ongeacht welke woorden van de lippen van de 'lesbienne' rollen, welke ideeen aan haar geest ontspruiten, bepaalde luisteraars maar een ding horen, 'lesbisch, lesbisch, lesbisch'. En d..
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