Twelve days of #chiasmus

'It is ever so hard for people to wrap their minds around the idea that someone could have been the enemy of your enemy and yet not a benevolent force. A victim and also a perpetrator. Or vice versa.’

(Masha Gessen, ‘In the Shadow of the Holocaust’) 12/12

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust

Twelve days of #chiasmus

'The yes becoming no, the no becoming yes, the yes becoming both yes and no, the no becoming both no and yes, the contraries balance, neutralise, paralyse each other.'

(Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy) 11/12

Twelve days of #chiasmus

'What is the blue road anyway but an opportunity to poke at the unseen and a hoping the unseen will poke back?'

(William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways) 10/12

Twelve days of #chiasmus

'Most tasks are easier said than done. In the case of coming together across seemingly intractable barriers, however, the reverse may be true: this one is easier done than said.'

(Naomi Klein, Doppelganger) 9/12

Twelve days of #chiasmus

'Aye, he’s chasing me now, not I, him'

(Herman Melville, Moby-Dick) 8/12

Twelve days of #chiasmus

'A wedding gift of dishes. “It starts when you sink in his arms...”’

(Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing) 7/12

Twelve days of #chiasmus

'Men look. So do women. Women look too. So ha ha there. If men dont think they do, they do, women look at men.'

(James Kelman, Mo Said She Was Quirky) 6/12

Twelve days of #chiasmus

'I wonder if they recognise me as quickly as I, them’.

(Dionne Brand, ‘At the Lisbon Plate’) 5/12

Twelve days of #chiasmus

‘Yes, we have rendered to these true cannibals war for war, crime for crime, outrage for outrage; yes, I have saved my country; I have avenged America.’

(Jean-Jacques Dessalines, proclamation of 28 April 1804) 4/12