Rocked
n' revived by Qiu Miaojin's devastating (literally) Last Words
from Montmartre: part lesbian love letter, part fiction, part
memoir, part suicide note, part sharp missal from a sweet soul sister
sent straight through my heart.... “Loyalty is not a passive,
negative guardianship of the gate – loyalty arises from the
complete and utter opening and subsequent blazing forth of one's
inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total
self-awareness and deliberate engagement.” (p.20) “Human nature
has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of
human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the
malicious, the beautiful within within the tragic. 'Love' is the
experience of this whole, its unfinished parts, including those of
one's own in relation to those of the other.” (p. 141)
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