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it a silent animal fragmented (literally tom to pieces) by the gaze of
others.
There may be no Sundays off in life, but there is Saturday,
that wonderful day of subjecthood and suspension before we fall
through the door between the end and the beginning of the week.
Then, we wake up in a cloud of dust to start the day—crawling from
the hole which our bodies have laid into the landscape.
Montana State University
David Metzger
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