I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.
Siri HustvedtReading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
Siri HustvedtThere's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
Siri HustvedtEvery sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Siri Hustvedt