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The Life To Come/The Life We Had - Coggle Diagram
The Life To Come/The Life We Had
Duality in Identity
Children of the Sea by Edwidge Danticat
The faces are showing their first charcoal of sunburn. "Now we will never be mistaken from Cubans," one man said. Even though some Cubans are black too.
Minimal Selves by Stuart Hall
I, then, went through the long, important political education of discovering that I am 'black'. Constituting oneself as black is another recognition of self through indifference.
Release of Control Over the Past
The Limit
by Christian Wiman
"At some point I stopped talking about my family's past and began reinventing it... Psychoanalysis is 'creating a story that you can live with'..."
Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car
by Virginia Woolf
"Gone, gone; over, over; past and done with, past and with. I feel life left behind even as the road is left behind. We have been over that stretch, and are already forgotten."
Objects of Desire: To Want What We Don't Have
Kanaya
by EM Forster
"I asked H.H. once whether I could dominate lust as he seemed to- for he visits his wife but rarely and her alone. He replied: 'Oh one can't teach those things. When you are dissatisfied with your present state of existence you will enter another- that's all.'"
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
by Hanif Kureishi
"I'm going to meet a woman - Alice - who I haven't seen for over twenty-years. I stayed in her house when I left university. In those days before you were born there was a colour bar in England. They gave me shelter, she and her husband. Then I went back home to marry. But I... I loved her terribly."
Cognitive Dissonance
Life To Come
by EM Forster
The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart- idea of thing, reality of thing- the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness. This space starts out empty, there is nothing in it, but it rapidly becomes filled up with obsession r desire or hatred or love- sometimes only one of these things."
On Seeing England for the First Time
by Jamaica Kincaid
"These people are so unlike ourselves that I much doubt whether they have really accepted Christ. They are pleasant enough when they meet us, yet probably spread all manner of ill-natured gossip when our backs are turned. I cannot wholly trust them."