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The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

Claudia Rankine
Feelings, Injury, Worst
Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.127, Macmillan

I wanted a feeling of accumulation. I really wanted the moments to add up because they do add up. I wanted to come up with a strategy that would allow these moments to accumulate in the reader's body in a way that they do accumulate in the body.

Claudia Rankine
Feelings, Add, Body
Source: www.guernicamag.com

The idea that when one reacts, one is not reacting to any one of those moments. You're reacting to the accumulation of the moments. I wanted the book, as much as the book could do this, to communicate that feeling. The feeling of saturation. Of being full up. I wanted it to be simulacra.

Claudia Rankine
Book, Ideas, Feelings
Source: www.guernicamag.com

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