As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag

Author:Susan Sontag
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012-04-09T14:00:00+00:00

I must not ask her to ask me to wait for her, to be patient, to have hope. I must simply show that I am, in fact, doing these things—without anxiety, without too much suffering.

Conversation with Eva [Berliner]:

The meaning of Carlotta’s “collapse” this past week: You see, I would if I could, but I can’t. For the behavior to be effective (i.e. self-exonerating) the collapse must be “total,” which excludes even the slightest gesture of consolation or reassurance to me. For if she could make such a gesture, that would mean she was capable of concern for me (of feeling a sense of responsibility) and therefore that the collapse was not total, and if not total then demands could conceivably be made on her, etc. (That, not sadism—conscious or unconscious—explains why she couldn’t give the smallest reassurance those last days.)

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