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  1. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God."
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  2. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    all the tall mad mountains of her mind
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  3. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for todayAdjudicateLegislateScandalizeCapitalizehere are Kreon's nounsMenReasonTreasonDeathShip of StateMineChorus: "mine" isn't a nounKreon: it is if you capitalize it
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  4. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    to carry one's own door will make a personclumsy, tired and strangeon the other hand, it may come in usefulif you go places that don't have an obvious way in, like normalityor an obvious way out, like the classic double bind
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  5. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    You are a person in love with the impossible
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  6. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poemfrom the last years of her life that begins"I lose my screams"dear Antigone,I take it as the task of the translatorto forbid that you should ever lose your screams
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  7. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    Antigone: We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.Ismene: Who said that?Antigone: Hegel.Ismene: Sounds more like Beckett.Antigone: He was paraphrasing Hegel.Ismene: I don't think so.
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  8. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.
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  9. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
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