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"Possible loves - are for fools - The wise have - impossible loves," reads a journal fragment from Christian mystic Simone Weil, whose life and works are examined here amid a seemingly unlikely assortment of topics. An argument for maintaining a reverence for commitment while rejecting a traditional, sentimental embrace of outmoded family structures becomes an inquiry into Weils drive toward self-sacrifice. A consideration of what Weil might have had in common with libertine and frequent critic Georges Bataille develops into a discussion of Timothy Treadwell, the tragic, grizzly-bear-enamored subject of Werner Herzogs Grizzly Man. Later, delving into the tradition of reticence in American poetry is brought into relief against the authors own experience at Burning Man, where the beat never stops. Like a long discussion with a sharply intelligent friend, Impossible Loves moves effortlessly from topic to topic without ever losing its focus. "Nearly every paper in my academic career has the secret or not-so-secret message of please, please try to love one another, and I think it would not be exaggerating to say that many, if not most, works of art have exactly this message as well," McNellis writes, admitting in the same essay that "emotions are embarrassing." Embarrassing, complex, even impossible though it may be, love is still the answer - but that doesnt make the questions any less interesting.

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Rock PAPER Tiger Press
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Impossible Loves : Essays
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2011
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104 Pages

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