Lecturing in Japan
Stephen Hawking was asked
not to mention that the universehad a beginning
(and so likely an end)
because it would affectthe stockmarket.
Speculation aside,
we all need a prehistory.According to Freud,
we do nothing but repeat it.
Beginnings are specialbecause most of them are fake.
The new person you become
with that first sip of winewas already there.
✧ Anne Carson, “i wish i were two dogs then i could play with me”
". . . and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that."
