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PRELUDE
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she was a woman who lived well, lived well, lived well.it worked—at least nothing spoke and nobody spoke, nobody said no;
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SCENE 1: THE CALLING
yesterday, however, I lost my human setup for hours and hours.
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what I used to be, was no good for me
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SCENE 2: HOURS OF PERDITION
was my will to want stronger than my will for salvation?
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I was experiencing in that desert the fire of things.
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now I know what happens in the dark of the mountains on the nights of orgies.
I know! I know with horror: things enjoy themselves. the thing of which things are made delights itself. -
SCENE 3: THE SECRET
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] we who keep yhe scream as an inviolable secret
] if I raise the alarm at being alive, voicelesss and hard they would drag me away since they drag away those who depart the possible world, the exception- al being is dragged away, the screaming being.
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SCENE 4: FEMALE MINOTAUR
] the possessed are not possessed by what is coming but by what is coming back.
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SCENE 5: THE GOAT’S SONG
] I was opening and closing my mouth to ask for help but I couldn’t and didn’t know how to articulate it.
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the unsayable can only be given to me through the failure of my language.only when the construction fails,
can I obtain what it could not achieve
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SCENE 7: IF I RAISED THE ALARM AT BEING ALIVE, VOICELESS AND HARD THEY WOULD DRAG ME AWAY
] no longer even fear
] no longer even fright.
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SCENE 9: THE TASTE OF THE LIVING OR THE VISION OF AN INFINITE FLESH
] seduced, I was still fighting as best as I could against the quicksand that was swallowing me:
and each movement I was making toward “no, no!” each movement pushed me inevitably on
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] the time to live, my love, was being so right now that I leaned my mouth on the matter of life.] finally, my love, I gave in. and it became a now. with disgust, with despair, with courage, I was giving in.
and now I wanted.