Afterwards, when the bombshell of early motherhood first hit, I remember wondering how any woman could possibly entertain erotic t...houghts while sleepwaking through the chaos of feeds, nappies stress and fatigue. I assume my husband and I must have had sex at least a few times in that two year period ... but I must say I can't remember it happening. Perhaps I dozed through it, who knows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
it is finally as though that thing of monstrous interest were happening in the sky... but the sun is setting and prevents you from seeing itLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are afloat On our dreams as on a barge made of ice,... Shot through with questions and fissures of starlight That keep us awake, thinking about the dreams As they are happening. Some occurrence. You said it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the earth a many-colored tower of longing rises. There are many ads (to help pay for all this).... Something interesting is happening on every landing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the nineteenth century ... explanations of who and what women were focused primarily on reproductive events--marriage, children..., the empty nest, menopause. You could explain what was happening in a woman's life, it was believed, if you knew where she was in this reproductive cycle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirl...ing around on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. ...The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The savages set up gods to which they pray, and which they punish if one of their prayers is not answered.... That is what is happ...ening at this moment.... Yesterday Kerensky; today Lenin and Trotsky; another tomorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »