When you're not looking, someone else speaks for you. Takes your time. Dances with you, even without you. Says it so much better than you could. I spent Saturday night reading Francine Prose.
"Bullfighting, it seems to me, gives us a clue. Kill the beast by all means, they say, but make it a contest, a ritual, and honour your antagonist for his strength adn bravery. eat him too, after you have vanquished him. Look him in the eyes before you kill him, and thank him afterwards. Sing songs about him.
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which of her work would you recommend?
hey maits! I read a personal essay of hers called "Going native". :-) About white city boys being fascianted with black gangster music.
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