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The biomechanics of desire

“When you hear the new violet sucking her way among the sods, shall you be resolute?”

— Emily Dickinson to Catherine Scott Turner, about 1859. The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958. Letter 203.

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