Love's Work by Gillian Rose & Michael Wood
Author:Gillian Rose & Michael Wood [Rose, Gillian & Wood, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Literary, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography, England, Biography, Personal Memoirs, Philosophers, Image
ISBN: 9781590173657
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 1995-01-01T16:00:00+00:00
Love's Work.
may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power. So what if I die. Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love.
Power and love, might and grace. That I may desire again. I would be the Lover, am barely the Beloved.
I have not yet told the whole of this story. This time, unhappy love, sempiternal, has an additional declension.
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Suppose that I were now to reveal that I have AIDS, full-blown AIDS, and have been ill during most of the course of what I have related. I would lose you. I would lose you to knowledge, to fear and to metaphor. Such a revelation would result in the sacrifice of the alchemy of my art, of artistic 'control' over the setting as well as the content of your imagination. A double sacrifice of my elocution: to the unspeakable (death) and to the overspoken (AIDS).
Not that I haven't been wooing you continually by the moods of metaphor; but we have kept the terms of our contract: you have given me free rein, and I have honoured my share of the obligation by not using up that freedom, by leaving large tracks of compacted equivocation at every twist in the telling.
Yet, do you not know and fear even more about love? Yes, yes, of course you do, but while the sor-rows of love in their monotony are endlessly engaging, illness is intrinsically not. So why should I deliberately spoil this narration by reduced equivoca-70
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