"To be a 'high functioning' anything, let’s say, is just to know that you can work liberal subjectivity OK today but maybe not next week. A strictly finite talent for the long, merciless art of living in a house, speaking a language, and exchanging money, labor, goods, and services in that occult proportion that keeps … Continue reading A Season Underground Eating the Pomegranate Seeds
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The Shaggy, Sharp-Toothed Thing With Thin Skin
"'As a concept,' Wang writes, 'the schizophrenias encompass a range of psychotic disorders, and it is a genus that I choose to identify with as a woman whose diagnosis is unfamiliar to most — the shaggy, sharp-toothed thing, and not the wolf... ...'the liminal' as a space in which 'thin-skinned' individuals — those who 'have … Continue reading The Shaggy, Sharp-Toothed Thing With Thin Skin
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