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27 December 2012

a fragment of Sophokles

[...]
Ice-crystal in the hands is
at first a pleasure quite novel.
But there comes a point--
you can't put the melting mass down,
you can't keep holding it.
Desire is like that.
Pulling the lover to act and not to act,
again and again, pulling.


reading Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson.