Tuesday, May 24, 2005
"Listen to the downstairs 5 or Ben will date another Jennifer"
- scrawled in the bathroom of Toad, a Porter Square Bar
another little library book fell into my lap, and while there is less urgency to it, there is a certain amount of nostalgic, hyperbolic drama:
"When we discover that someone we trusted can be trusted no longer, it forces us to re-examine the universe, to question the whole instinct and concept of trust. For a while, we are thrust back onto some bleak, jutting ledge, in a dark pierced by sheets of fire, swept by sheets of rain, in a world before kinship, or naming, or tenderness exist; we are brought to the edge of formlessness."
"An honorable human relationship-- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word 'love'-- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.
It is important to do this because in so doing we do justice to our own complexity.
It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us."
- Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Notes on Lying
- scrawled in the bathroom of Toad, a Porter Square Bar
another little library book fell into my lap, and while there is less urgency to it, there is a certain amount of nostalgic, hyperbolic drama:
"When we discover that someone we trusted can be trusted no longer, it forces us to re-examine the universe, to question the whole instinct and concept of trust. For a while, we are thrust back onto some bleak, jutting ledge, in a dark pierced by sheets of fire, swept by sheets of rain, in a world before kinship, or naming, or tenderness exist; we are brought to the edge of formlessness."
"An honorable human relationship-- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word 'love'-- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.
It is important to do this because in so doing we do justice to our own complexity.
It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us."
- Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Notes on Lying
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