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Ladies in Waiting | The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Science | Issues | The Hedgehog Review

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There’s a certain eroticism to waiting. Even if—or more accurately because—it’s a painful experience.

Waiting, which renders everything provisional, which suspends progress or conclusion of any kind, is worse than clarity. --> Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. -W.S. Merwin 1 1 x W.S. Merwin, "Separation," in The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993), 15. Retrieved from Poetry Foundation website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/28891 . In the most memorable scene of the 2002 film Secretary , nothing happens. The protagonist, Lee, sits as still as possible, he

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