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He Was Trying To Fit This Herakles Onto The One He Knew.
-Anne Carson
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He Was Trying To Fit This Herakles
Anne Carson
He Was Trying To Fit This Herakles Onto The One He Knew.
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A Thinking Mind Is Not Swallowed Up By What It Comes To Know. It Reaches Out To Grasp Something Related To Itself And To Its Present Knowledge (and So Knowable In Some Degree) But Also Separate From Itself And From Its Present Knowledge (not Identical With These). In Any Act Of Thinking, The Mind Must Reach Across This Space Between Known And Unknown, Linking One To The Other But Also Keeping Visible To Difference. It Is An Erotic Space.
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