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Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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Literary Critic
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City of Toronto
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Incompleteness
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
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