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Breaking the Lonely Rewind

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"Breaking the Lonely Rewind" Hysteria ensues a small death on a funeral pyre pushed into a sealed and soiled heart shaped box sunk to swallow stone tears reversing reflections in the coldest mirrors Tsunami waves flood all that was green On the breaking shores there the Lonely Rewind is floating amidst The Shallows resurfaced, cracked open and laid bare her black treasures boiling over inky interior spilt darkly the soul now sharp and split in two a gift from the damned walking out into the blistery wind where sourness all around whispers a soft war of unclaimed, unwanted forgotten voices, The Lost and Lonely, way past the end of their world, where heartbreak is spurned resurrect into burning birds from the cold veined inferno, The Silent Ocean of Reprieve (LadyLabyrinth/2019) "When I Was Older"/Billie Eilish https://youtu.be/HSCREQjxPHE Lyrics: https://genius.com/Billie-eilish-when-i-was-older-lyrics "In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn." Butler "She told me she’d be a phoenix.” The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. “They don’t really exist.” “She said that depends on whether or not there’s someone who can see them." Picoult "One does not need to be against womens suffrage," the London Times editorialized in 1908, "to see that some of the more violent partisans of that cause are suffering from hysteria. We use the word not with any scientific precision, but because it is the name most commonly given to a kind of enthusiasm that has degenerated into habitual nervous excitement."' Gilman "Lady Lazarus", Plath https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarus

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/30/2019 2:47:00 PM

“A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.” Simone de Beauvoir

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/30/2019 2:46:00 PM

"In a way, literature is truer than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2019 2:46:00 PM

On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality." Simone de Beauvoir,

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/30/2019 2:41:00 PM

“There was once a man who lost his shadow. I forget what happened to him, but it was dreadful. As for me, I've lost my own image. I did not look at it often; but it was there, in the background, just as Maurice had drawn it for me. A straightforward, genuine, "authentic" woman, with out mean-mindedness, uncompromising, but at the same time understanding, indulgent, sensitive, deeply feeling, intensely aware of things and of people, passionately devoted to those she loved and creating happiness for them

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2019 2:42:00 PM

A fine life, serene, full, "harmonious." It is dark: I cannot see myself anymore. And what do the others see? Maybe something hideous.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/30/2019 2:36:00 PM

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”Simone de Beauvoir

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2019 2:36:00 PM

“Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.” Simone de Beauvoir

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/30/2019 2:33:00 PM

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly." Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/30/2019 2:30:00 PM

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." Simone de Beauvoir

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2019 2:32:00 PM

“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.” Simone de Beauvoir

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/30/2019 2:28:00 PM

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”. Simone de Beauvoir

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2019 2:31:00 PM

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/30/2019 2:26:00 PM

Hysteria.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/30/2019 2:27:00 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria