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A non-exhaustive list of things a woman does when she’s afraid (opens the original)
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Regards her appearance as tiresome but beguiling on demandPushes her food around the plate with a knife and fork. A hockey faceoffSays it didn’t matterSuggests love is temporary, but rejecting own deservingness is foreverDevelops a model of discernment that is neither provoking nor truthful, bland to taste<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qr-h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpub
The Grit with Caroline Cai (opens the original)
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The Grit is a Club Reticent series where I have beautiful conversations with my favorite women about their creative lives – unpredictability to craft. first entered my periphery through the podcast. She appeared on their Catalan Chicslop episode, where the girls dissected what lies behind the Gimaguas-ificati
Pervy Reads (opens the original)
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Every other month, I make a themed list of selected fiction and non-fiction for my paid subscribers. The first two can be found here and here. I’m drawn to inspecting desire in its various forms. Studying it feeds my imagination, which feeds my curiosity, and maybe this need is getting a bit deviant, but it’s a symbiotic loop I can’t say no to. Lacan suggests desire is fundamentally rooted in lack, so mayb
ABOUT PAIN (opens the original)
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“I WAS MUCH HAPPIER WHEN HE LEFT. BECAUSE I HAD A PROJECT.”I’M AT THE LOUISIANA MUSEUM IN DENMARK, HUNGRY FOR KNOWLEDGE THAT FEELS NEW AND FINAL. THERE’S A DARK ROOM AND THEY’RE SHOWING BECOMING SOPHIE CALLE. SOPHIE SITS IN FRONT OF THE INTERVIEWER, HANDS ON KNEES. CONFESSIONAL, SHE IS REFERRING TO HER EX BOYFRIEND WHO ENDED THINGS ABRUPTLY VIA EMAIL, THE LAST LINE OF WHICH BECAME THE NAME FOR TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. SHE SENT T
Is this just how it’s going to be now? (opens the original)
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I am somebody that needs order. I am somebody that’s in your way to make order happen. I was born an order’s cuck and I’ll die it, always stepping out of line over myself to provide comic relief and stay in fortune’s good graces.I am also somebody who cares about putting out good work, artistically and structurally, maybe too much for my own good. It gets to a point where the measure of good distorts, converges over the horizon, and becomes bad: a solid body of work left to ponder on for too lon
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