Iris Murdoch

A Severed Head

my intuitive curatorial instinct (picking this up after Between The Acts by Woolf and after watching Babygirl by Reijn) is kind of impeccable… new future dream syllabus in progress to come…

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This characteristic of my beloved exasperated me, but since it was also a part, after all, of Georgie’s remarkable detachment and lack of worldly pretention, I adored it and loved it as well. It was, moreover, as I sometimes reflected, the very image and symbol of my relation to Georgie, my mode of possessing her, or more precisely the way in which I, as it were, failed to possess her . . . I did not possess Georgie. Georgie was simply there. 

‘Yes, to distraction. Do you love me?’

‘Not infinitely,’ said Georgie. ‘Let us be exact. Your love is great but finite quantity.’

We both knew what she referred to, but there were some topics which it was profitless to discuss, and this we both knew also.

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