Sheila Heti : Pure Colour
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Unlived Life
I'm glad for that question because that's not something that I've had. There's this great thing that Adam Phillips the British psychoanalyst writes about where he talks about this idea of the unlived life. And I've had that experience of, you know, you fall in love with somebody or have a real crush on somebody and yet you can't be with them. It's almost as though you've already lived it. You can't convince yourself that it wouldn't be anything like would you imagine. We don't really know the narrative of what it's like to be a bear or a fish in this book from the inside but mirror is anxiety at least as a bird person as
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