Bluets
内容简介
"Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . ." A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With "Bluets," Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including "Something Bright, Then Holes" (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and "Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions" (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
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读书文摘
请不要试图说服我。当某个东西不再给你快乐的时候，你不能将快乐说服回来。
一个年轻的医生让我用1–10等级估计疼痛——我有些困惑，觉得自己似乎不该去那里——我说“6”——对护士说，写“8”，因为女性总是低估自己的疼痛。男性总是说“11”，他说。
我们经常数自己度过的时日，好似衡量这一行为会给予我们某种承诺。然而，这实则如同拿着挽具套一匹无形的马。
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