{"id":6143,"date":"2018-12-02T13:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/2018\/12\/02\/mediating-desire-distance\/"},"modified":"2023-07-16T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T02:37:20","slug":"mediating-desire-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2018\/12\/02\/mediating-desire-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"mediating desire + distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px; padding:0px; max-width:100%; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:\" helveticaneue\",arial,sans,sans-serif; font-size:medium; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\">Longing we say, because desire is full of endless distances <\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px; padding:0px; max-width:100%; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:\" helveticaneue\",arial,sans,sans-serif; font-size:medium; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\"><span style=\"box-sizing:border-box; max-width:100%; font-style:italic;\">   \u2013 <\/span>Robert Hass<span style=\"box-sizing:border-box; max-width:100%; font-style:italic;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px; padding:0px; max-width:100%; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:\" helveticaneue\",arial,sans,sans-serif; font-size:medium; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px; padding:0px; max-width:100%; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:\" helveticaneue\",arial,sans,sans-serif; font-size:medium; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\">In a poem called \u201cMeditation at Lagunitas,\u201d the poet Robert Hass writes: \u201cLonging, we say, because desire is full \/ of endless distances.\u201d The simultaneously terrible and wonderful property of desire is that the intensity of feeling derives not from the fulfillment but from the imminence of deprivation. 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