Towards an Ethic of Love
Friday, May 10th, 2013
Cal’s riveting tale of transformation in Books III and IV of Middlesex is hardly contained to his imagined person. This transformation that Eugenides so deftly splices onto the page reverberates up through his fingertips into the the author himself, through the rods and cones of the reader as she deduces meaning, pattern, and emotion through […]
Towards an Ethic of Love
Tags: Genealogy, Hir, Justification, love, Middlesex, Myth
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“If you see something, say something”
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
While reading Middlesex, a certain quote, the origin of which I cannot place, kept popping into my head: “We accept the love we think we deserve.” Our sense of deserving in life is shaped the by the shame we cannot overcome. The characters in Eugenides’ novel each negotiate the embodiment of this feeling, preoccupied by […]
“If you see something, say something”
Tags: incest, Jeffrey Eugenides, love, Middlesex, Shame, surveillance
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