Liberal Humanists

“Liberals. Liberal humanists. That would be the enemy, in all positions... [the illusion that] there is a self who exists prior to anything who goes around emoting, experiencing and developing. This is what I hate”

From the review of C by Tom McCarthy, by Jenny Turner in the LRB

the night, the porch

To stare at nothing is to learn by heart
what all of us will be swept into, and baring oneself
to the wind is feeling the ungraspable somewhere close by.
-- "The Night, The Porch"