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Both anxiety and desire ‘are tilted toward the future’
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety…
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Philip Roth (RIP): ‘Writing turns you into someone who’s always wrong’
“Writing turns you into someone who’s always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right is the perversity that draws you on.” Philip Roth In 2016, Roth donated 3,500 of his books to his hometown library in Newark, his ‘other home.’ Among those were the fifteen books Roth said influenced his life the most. Citizen…