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do you suppose a mirror remembers for/pq-done inspo/dialogue topic/love

That strange word “believe,” with “lie” in it, is still going through her head when he has pulled down the straps of her dress, and spun her around, the dress slips over her narrow hips to the floor, and she’s standing in front of him in a little white slip. On the way to the couch they walk hand i…

—p.46 Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Clémentine comes over every day inspo/sex

Clémentine comes over every day, and some days we sleep together, and some days we try not to but end up fucking anyway. It has happened; we need each other now. I need her, I am able to say, but I don’t understand this need, I have never been with a girl before, never knew I wanted a girl, until I…

—p.362 Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
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where we run into trouble is the idea of futurity topic/infidelity

[...] David doesn’t know anything, and I’m not going to tell him, it would be an act of selfishness. But do I want him to guess, do I want to be found out, do I want to scare him? These are the things I would suspect of a client. But of myself? Am I hiding from myself? I look back through my journa…

—p.325 by Lauren Elkin
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but I have so much faith for/pq-maybe topic/infidelity topic/love

My father, Jonathan says, is a womanising bastard. I love him but it’s true, he’s a bastard. He doesn’t see it that way, he says he loves easily and well, but he’s a serial cheater. He cheated on my mother, he cheated on my stepmother, he cheated on his first wife, and he invented a whole intellect…

—p.315 by Lauren Elkin
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I see it as something you practise topic/infidelity

When it comes to the ethical ramifications of desire, Lacan thinks: no. You don’t give in. You’ll just want something else later, so why indulge something that could prove harmful to other people? But I think it’s reinforcing an imprisoning structure to phrase it in terms of giving in or not giving…

—p.314 by Lauren Elkin