The Telling Itself

Loss, Reactance, & Forced Accommodation


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The word

is bear: you give and give, you empty yourself
into something or someone. And you survive
the automatic loss. Against inhuman landscape,
the tree remains a figure for grief; its form
is forced accommodation.

Louise Glück (from Autumnal)

Notes:

Psychological reactance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)

RE: STACKS (Bon Iver Piano Cover) played by Klara Louise

Glück reading from The Garden: https://voca.arizona.edu/content/louise-gl%C3%BCck

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The Telling ItselfBy Steve Tell