It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind
Interpretation
The quote explores the idea of self-identity and the inner conflict of understanding oneself.
Sarah Kane's quote reflects on the concept of self-awareness and the struggle to truly know oneself. It suggests that often we create a facade or conception of our identity, which is hidden from our conscious perception, leading to a disconnect between who we think we are and who we truly are. This introspective idea underscores the complexity of human psychology and the challenge of self-discovery.
In practice
In a motivational talk about personal growth.
I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope
I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre... but they don't. They expect to sit back and not participate.
A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.
Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.
In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.
When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens.
Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
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