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232 pages, Paperback
First published July 15, 2015
For the writers of the generation after Bembo, the most authoritative claim for the pleasure and goodness of the sexual union was to be found in Leone Ebreo’s Dialogues on Love (1535). This is the work that supplied Aragona with the terminology, the concepts, and some of the arguments leading to her definition of love. In universal terms, love is described by Leone as a forced uniting the created world to God in a harmonious circularity. At the center of the universe is the human being, a microcosm made of matter and spirit, whose dual nature reflects the mutual correspondence of heaven and earth and makes the connection between the spiritual and the corporeal realms possible. In human terms, perfect love is one that correspondingly yearns for the union of both body and soul, for a physical consummation that confirms and strengthens the spiritual union already brought about by reason and by the higher senses.
we always realize things afterwards. loneliness, for example. it's not when we think we're alone, or when we feel abandoned. that's something different. loneliness is invisible, we go through it unconsciously, without knowing. at least that's true of the sort i'm talking about. it's a kind of empty set that installs itself in the body, in language, and makes us unintelligible. it appears unexpectedly when we look back, there in a moment we hadn't noticed before.verónica gerber bicecci's empty set (conjunto vacío) is an experimental novel wherein the visual artist-turned-writer strives to make sense of the world around (and within) her. replete with bicecci's own drawings and venn diagrams, this debut novel defies easy classification, yet radiates with an unassuming warmth. while trying to understand to where and why her mother might have disappeared, amidst navigating the pitfalls and trappings of modern romantic relationships, bicecci's eponymous narrator seeks to order her world spatially (while finding inspiration in dendrochronology, ice core samples, and the like). there's an ambitiousness to empty set that, while perhaps not readily apparent, functions as a yearning, or longing. although bicecci's debut isn't exactly charting unexplored territory, it, nonetheless, offers discoveries of things heretofore unmapped. visualizing the interconnected and temporal nature of people, places, and things, empty set offers a glimpse into a heart disjointed, fragmented, and ever-seeking of connection.
but the bunker was at its weirdest when everything was calm. the absolute silence was often the forerunner of catastrophe.