the Withness of the Body

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What departs at death is 19 grams (= 7/8 ounce) of you shedding a soft blue light. 

What remains behind is various.
 

—Anne Carson
Short Talk on the Withness of the Body, excerpt

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wait - what?

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Short Talk on the Withness of the Body, excerpt

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What departs at death is 19 grams (= 7/8 ounce) of you
shedding a soft blue light.


–Anne Carson

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wait - what?
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ANTIGONE:

 

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We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.

–Anne Carson
Antigonick


 
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