To deny the existence of red
is to deny the existence of mystery.
The soul which does so will one day go mad.
I will never know how you see red
and you will never know how I see
it. But this separation of consci-
ousness is recognized only after
a failure of communication ..
Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red
A Novel in Verse
xxxii. Kiss
Alfred A. Knopf, 1998©
Jacob Young
Select, London
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