I do not want to be a person / I want to be unbearable.

— Anne Carson, “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions”, Decreation, p. 72

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One can be a person and still be unbearable. All people are unbearable: unbearably ethereal, unbearably beautiful, unbearably Other.

I want to invite her and Kundera to dinner, and stay up all night talking to them.