As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh by Susan Sontag

Author:Susan Sontag [Sontag, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

Now Phase Three. The time of playing the game. Carlotta cannot be the center of my life, only (possibly) part of a plural center that will include work, friends, other affairs. I must allow her her liberty to be with me when she wants to and then go away again. I must learn to use, and genuinely enjoy, the liberty that such a situation allows me.

I must appear to be strong—which means that I really must be strong. I must not offer her my suffering, my longing for her, as a proof of my love. I must not even tell her so often that I love her. I must not try to persuade her, with words, that it will be good for her to be with me. (This awakens her fear of dependence.) I must not ask her to reassure me, to tell me she loves me. I must not ask her when she is coming to New York, only [say] that I hope she will come.

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