SK Gaski finished reading Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Annie Ernaux
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming …
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In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming …
I am still living in a time of passion (one day I will no longer be aware that I wasn’t thinking of A. when I woke up) but it has changed, it has ceased to be continuous.
— Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Annie Ernaux (Page 42)
Sometimes I told myself that he might spend a whole day without even thinking about me. I imagined him getting up, drinking his coffee, talking, and laughing, as if I didn’t exist. Compared to my own obsession, such indifference stupefied me. How could this be? Even he would have been astonished to find out that I never stopped thinking about him from morning to night. There was nothing to suggest that my attitude was more justifiable than his. In a way, I was luckier than him.
— Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Annie Ernaux (Page 26 - 27)
I often wondered what these afternoons of lovemaking meant to him. Probably nothing more than just that, making love. There was no point in looking for other reasons. I would only ever be certain of one thing: his desire or lack of desire. The only undeniable truth could be glimpsed by looking at his penis.
— Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Annie Ernaux (Page 24)
In the same way, when I was reading, the sentences that gave me pause were those concerning the relationship between a man and a woman. They seemed to teach me something about A. and lent credibility to the things I wished to believe.
— Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Annie Ernaux (Page 13)
It occured to me that writing should aim to do the same, to replicate the feeling of witnessing sexual intercourse, that feeling of anxiety and stupefaction, a suspension of moral judgment.
— Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Annie Ernaux (Page 11)

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming …
En bitteliten, ganske lettlest, tekst/bok om å høre og å lytte. Om man har en viss teoretisk interesse for lyd og å tenke på lyd/hørsel tror æ den e veldig givanes – om man, som mæ, sett pris å lese sånt som snakke om ting man nok ikke har tenkt på/formulert før e det her et prakteksemplar av sorten.
Hearing is the passive basis of listening. Hearing is involuntary. Hearing protects us from unseen dangers. We can hear without listening.
— Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Anderson, Ione (Page 37)
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.
— Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Anderson, Ione (Page 33)