He has taken her from me, for himself –<\/p>\n
Through threats that play upon her fear<\/p>\n
In this life, of this life. Threats to last a lifetime.<\/p>\n
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How I pity him in his victory and her in her choice.<\/p>\n
He cannot truly possess her except with proximity<\/p>\n
Unless a more complete possession were to become her actual desire.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When this life has ended for the three of us<\/p>\n
If there is a way for her and I to be together<\/p>\n
She would surely be extricated if I were to still want her \u2013<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t find solace in this fact just as<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t feel anything but sadness and loss<\/p>\n
And would feel this even if I believed it would be a surety in a life after this one.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If we are to still be us but without flesh, bone, time, even consciousness<\/p>\n
After our bodies become just earth<\/p>\n
I will still feel the same sadness and loss in the new place as I feel here now in this room.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I will pity myself just as I have pitied him.<\/p>\n
I will pity her as well if she comes to me in the next place<\/p>\n
And extends herself metaphorically toward me as if to embrace me<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Because he can have her in the next place as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
John Tustin He has taken her from me, for himself – Through threats that play upon her fear In this life, of this life. Threats to last a lifetime. How I pity him in his victory and her in her choice. He cannot truly possess her except with proximity Unless a more complete possession were to become her actual desire. When this life has ended for the three of us If there is a way for her and I to be together She would surely be extricated if I were to still want her \u2013 If. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions\/342"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}