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1	+	There is no greater love than the love a wolf feels for the lamb it doesn’t eat
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3	+	HÉLÈNE CIXOUS
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5	+	I.
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7	+	They say when the Spaniards came we thought them
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9	+	gods. They came with sincere eyes, but insincere
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11	+	mouths & cocks they knew something about the
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13	+	universe & we only knew about the earth, not
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15	+	about the stars unless being guided by them is
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17	+	a kind of knowing, but no, in those days the stars
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19	+	knew us more than we them. & that might be the
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21	+	difference between the wolf & the lamb, our
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23	+	relationship to bounty. I think what I want
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25	+	to say here is that to the wolf go the spoils & yet
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27	+	there is something about being a lamb—the danger
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29	+	the never knowing when the wolf will be hungry enough.
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31	+	How do you not love yourself when you constantly
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33	+	survive your undoing just by being precious?
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35	+	I don’t like coyness, if I love you I will take your mouth
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37	+	first because that is where the breath lives, does that
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39	+	make me a wolf, or does this: when I am near you
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41	+	I shackle my intentions & feasts with my eyes, I won’t
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43	+	dare eat of your flesh. How could I? It would be like
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45	+	the snake that eats itself from the tail, eventually it
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47	+	chokes on everything, its rough scales, its heart all
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49	+	colonized & tender, the whole world becomes its
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51	+	body half-eaten & dragging in the dirt—

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