Friday, June 12, 2026

location prayer

 139  The point now:  not to know where I am and what the place is called. 

140  Nonsense: time and again discovery could happen.  

141  Despite all her inner disorientation, she felt at the same time a strength inside her as if she had been given the ability to raise the man from the dead.

142  finicky as she is, she had never liked butter 

she roamed through Alaska and Siberia 

is Handke portraying himself as woman, all women he has known, his mother, the eternal feminine, women he has met, has wanted to meet . . . the woman inside of him, his daughter, whom he raised in her earliest years, women he wishes he had met . . . . the fruit thief . . . not Augustine in the thievery of the pears over the garden well . . . .   not much hint of seminary in H's texts . . . . 

143  woman in Siberia, her first ever female friend 

144 ( daily superstition involved reading . . . immersing herself completely, and that would benefit someone about whose well-being she cared deeply, clearing the person's head, providing strength, if not "solid ground underfoot.")

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