“The wound, which both anticipates death and holds it back, is never empty.”
- Susann Cokal, Wounds, Ruptures, and Sudden Space in the Fiction of Georges Bataille.
1) Hannibal 3.3, ‘Secondo’ written by Angelina Burnett, Bryan Fuller, & Steve Lightfoot
2, 4, 6) Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
3) Hannibal 3.6, ‘Dolce’ written by Don Mancini, Bryan Fuller, & Steve Lightfoot
5) Hannibal 3.13, ‘The Wrath of the Lamb’ written by Nick Antosca
Bryan Fuller, & Steve Lightfoot
—Simone Weil, from Waiting for God
—Charles Wright, from “Clear Night”
—C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
shipwreckofthesingular
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—Hélène Cixous, “Love of the Wolf” (trans. Keith Cohen), in Stigmata: Escaping Texts
Carnal Appetites
Cat Valente, Deathless / Sarah Clear, Routledge Companion to Literature and Food/ C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy / Helene Cixous, The Love of The Wolf / Emily Palermo, Love In The Time Of Monsters / Marie Howe, After The Movie / Kim Hyesoon
“I don’t know how to stay tender with this much blood in my mouth”
— Ophelia, Act IV, Scene V
the tongue, the wanting.
The first poem in the world
is I want to eat.
love and grief + the body
e.m. forster / donna tartt / jen mazza / hanya yanagihara / fiona apple / richard siken / portrait of a lady on fire (2019) dir. céline sciamma / the brian jonestown massacre / @vegaschapters / donna tartt
How else can you love
so hungry,
so rough,
so devoted -
until you fall apart?
You over Her [not as a body but as a steeple]
