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14
Aug
Angela Carter
Author: Melisinka
“Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been”
— Angela Carter (Wise Children)
— Angela Carter (Wise Children)
“His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.”
“So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face – that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.”
“It is far easier for a woman to lead
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague.”
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague.”
“I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.”
— Angela Carter (The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman)
— Angela Carter (The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman)
