“Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledg...”
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<p><b>Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time</b></p> <p>A book about romantic love, <i>Eros the Bittersweet</i> is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's <i>Spring and All</i> and William H. Gass's <i>On Being Blue</i>.</p>
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“Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledg...”
“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’...”