2/27/2023 0 Comments Becoming a man half a life story![]() ![]() ![]() We confuse our neuroses for our innermost truths and in the end it all boils down to: nothing. We long for experience, we shrink from experience we want to understand, we don’t want to understand. We both want to grow up and don’t want to grow up we hunger for sexual pleasure, we dread sexual pleasure we hate our own aggressions-anger, cruelty, the need to humiliate-yet they derive from the grievances we are least willing to part with.įrom there the divisions multiply. ![]() We are, every last one of us, divided against ourselves. “From birth to death,” writes Vivian Gornick, in her memoir The Odd Woman and the City, Vivian Gornick, Greenwich Village, September 2020 ![]()
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