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Finished #Orbital this weekend 🍕⭐️ #katrintheresareading #SamanthaHarvey #bookstodon #pizza
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Steelers won 🎉🏈 (#pittsburgh fans)— now time to enjoy Chocolate Mint Tea along with the spicy scent of a Gingerbread Cookie 🕯️
#Reading “From One Identity To Another” in Julia Kristeva’s *Desire in Language*
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“…and could be viewed as an act of cultural
self-defense— linguistic self-defense,
in the case of poetry—against Fascism.”
#JosephBrodsky #katrintheresareading
This quote (out of historical context) explains how language is used to steer minds in a certain direction or frame of thought— and how poetry has the potential to help one think differently.
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“NOW that the hassocks are burning
I eat the book with all its insignia.”#PaulCelan translated by Michael Hamburger #katrintheresareading
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“INTERVIEWER
So many of your books, fiction and nonfiction, are explorations of the lives of very poor people. What makes it possible for you to cross the boundaries of social class so gracefully?PONIATOWSKA
I think of the Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington. She was my great friend and I wrote a novel about her, called Leonora…”
#ElenaPoniatowska #LeonoraCarrington https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7147/the-art-of-fiction-no-238-elena-poniatowska #katrintheresareading