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“In Chapter 7 of The Autobiography of Red, Geryon meets Herakles for the first time. Anne Carson says they “recognized each other like italics.” Like the second they shared the same patch of air they were already leaning into each other. She also says their meeting was “one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness.” Like they couldn’t stop seeing each other once it had started, that they were so busy seeing each other everything else fell away. Like the world between them stopped, and the world around them just kept moving. I didn’t think that would ever happen to me, that I’d ever get to live like someone out of a book. Then, of course, I got to meet you.”

(Found this on my computer last night in a word document titled “Aftershock.” ….huh.)