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After Reading Stein a Certain Truth Comes Out
Commonweal, April 22, 2005 by Katharine Jager
This is how it's done. You slow down and listen, I mean really listen to the sentence, to what it is the other mouth is saying. You must read aloud, and mutter, over and over until the sense reveals itself. In the paper's margin a better teacher's written: it is not self but other, here, to which you are referring. It's the being heard, and so completely, by another that creates the panic, then, the large responsibility. It's the same with loving, you must force yourself to sit still, still the chatter babbling in you, you must force your face toward the other. It is an active matter. You slow yourself and then you listen. You listen well and sometimes you can hear.
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