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Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

J. M. Coetzee
Desire, Coins, Language
J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.22, Penguin

Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

J. M. Coetzee
Lying, Two, Desire
J. M. Coetzee (2005). “Slow Man”, Viking Press

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