Laura Mullen Quotes

• So when we're told to "move on" or "let go," we should take a look at who is saying it and why, and when we see repetition happening it's worth trying to understand it before attempting to shut it down.

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  Letting Go, Moving, Trying

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• Wherever something is "pinned down" there's a little hole - at least one - more likely many.

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  Littles, Holes

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• Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?

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  Police, Examination, Protection

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• The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that being an "individual" can't protect you - these are issues I've been thinking about for a while.

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  Thinking, Issues, Way

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• Y Duelo complicado es un texto que anuncia desde el principio, en su cita de influencias, densa intertextualidad e hibridez, un fracaso de algunas protecciones aparentes o habituales, y una necesidad de reexaminar la "identidad" a la luz de un reconocimiento de nuestros enredos e interdependencia.

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  Grief, Light, Identity

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• Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

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  Years, Gertrude, Syllabus

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• El aspecto más importante de escribir las piezas que componen este octavo libro fue ceder a mi lado obsesivo, dejar que mi propio "dolor complicado" participara en el proceso. Puedes imaginarte lo tentador que es intentar luchar contra esa parte de ti que da vueltas y más vueltas, atrapada en una pena enmarañada de la que parece no haber escapatoria.

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  Grief, Book, Writing

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• If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.

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  Ideas, Stories, Shapes

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• "Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

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  Italian, Self, Disease

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• Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.

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  Taken, Writing, Differences

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• It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on that, that's the usual phrase - should I say the jury is deadlocked?). Staying with the pain, attending to it, being present to and with it - that's the task, because that's the only (as far as I can tell) hope of finding a way forward.

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  Pain, Real, Healing

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• Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.

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  Crazy, Fighting, Artist

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• We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the sequel give away a larger loopiness). But I tend to dwell or obsess or meditate, and I came back to, for instance, the figure of Dickens's "Miss Havisham" with some (self) recognition if not relief.

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  Loyalty, Moving, Self

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• It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

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  Philosophy, Dwelling, Meditation

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• Miss Havisham es un fallo en el buen funcionamiento del Patriarcado, que impone la conciencia de un momento de desastre social y vergüenza personal, algo que parece que ella querría que olvidáramos (pero que nadie olvidaría). (Quizá una interesante "pregunta de debate" para los lectores de Duelo complicado podría ser: "¿Qué tienen en común Terry Barton y Miss Havisham?").

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  Grief, Interesting, Missing

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• En la sección "Intervención" del libro nos adentramos en ese bucle desde una batería de posiciones (en las que sanador y sufridor se desdibujan). Me interesa mucho la "repetición y revisión" (por usar la frase de Suzan Lori-Parks) y el deseo de la cultura de entrar en bucle o repetir.

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  Book, Desire, Batteries

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• The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.

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  Dallas, Groups, Events

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• What was toughest for me in writing "Trust," was reliving it, turning and facing this. We move on and we don't move on, you know? She's still there - and by "she" I mean me - caught in that windowless room, that bad bargain and that violation. No one can touch me, sexually, without activating that memory. But I had walled, I thought, that time off. I say that and then want to say "and I got off lightly"!

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  Memories, Moving, Mean

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• Hay un caso en Baton Rouge, que me atormenta, en el que una madre dejó a su hija de doce años para que la cuidaran (todos los días durante meses) un conocido pederasta y sus cuatro perversos amigos, y saltó la noticia de los cadáveres de dos niños, muertos tras largos abusos físicos, encontrados en un almacén de California. Lo más duro para mí es, supongo, lo más duro para mi país

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  Hija, Madre, País

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• Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those who most deserve our care and protection.

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  Abuse, Admitting, Care

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• I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different - and better - possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.

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  Children, Honesty, America

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• I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where writing about a fire (and about the attempt to understand the event), also becomes an attempt to understand how writing might get closer to the fire, in so many ways.

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  Book, Writing, Fire

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• Complicated Grief se escribió en formas más amplias y coherentes (aunque dispares). La cuestión era cómo encajarlas. La mente es coherente, confío en que fue el mejor consejo de escritura que he recibido (me lo dio Carole Maso y lo transmito). Es cierto, y cada vez más claro a medida que uno crece y adquiere un mejor sentido de quién es en realidad (frente a quién se supone que es).

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  Grief, Writing, Advice

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• I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.

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  Arte, Libro, Escritura

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• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

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  Mother, Discovery, Matter

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