- Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous (. . . victims of the questions: Who is killing me? To whom am I giving myself over to be killed?)
- The Sirens and Feminine Jouissance, Renata Salecl (However, with humans, castration should not be understood as the basis for denying the possibility of the sexual relation, but as the prerequisite for any sexual relation at all. It can even be said that it is only because subjects are castrated that human relations as such can exist. Castration enables the subject to take others as Other rather than the same, since it is only after undergoing symbolic castration that the subject becomes preoccupied with questions such as “what does the Other want?” and “what am I for the Other?”)
- Diana's Tree, Aljendra Pizarnik (beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert / of the traveler with an emptied glass / and of her shadow’s shadow)
- NOW THEN: Who will stop plunging their hands in search of tributes for the forgotten girl? The cold will pay. The wind will pay. As will the rain. And the thunder.
- she says she doesn’t know the fear of death of love / she says she fears the death of love / she says love is death is fear / she says death is fear is love / she says she doesn’t know
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