Lilith and I learn about "death care"
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Uncertain weather. Uncertain left knee. Lilith's supine on the floor, only
half-expecting a long walk, her eyes drifting closed, then open, closed
again. ...
23 hours ago

2 comments:
Whose heart is deaf? He who frames the terms of the argument is only listening to the echoes of his own non-hearing, right? Is this what De Mann meant by the violence of language?
Most blindness is only partial and well-intentioned at that--but the harm it does is still incalculable.
Whoops, it's Paul de Man who talks about the violence of conceptual totalization, not another critic with the similar name "Mann."
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