Ross Gay on inciting joy while dining with sorrow
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The Puritans Are Not Bedfellows
"I think there's some element of like shame to it. Some of us sort of feel ashamed to be heartbroken or to be devastated," she says. "If you tell me about your devastation, it becomes to some extent, not mine, but it, but it comes into me." She adds that the dream of purity is a wreckage upon the earth. "[Purity] knows everything. Knows what's right.knows what's wrong. Knows how it ought to be".
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