When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other

Text of the day: “Oh? Only scum in storybooks sound like scum — only the made-up ones don’t know grammar. But the real scum — scum of the earth like you — you hold words to a woman’s throat with the same accuracy you’d hold a knife and with one simple sentence you knock her to the ground and penetrate her body. Well isn’t that so?” (Woman in Martin Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other)

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