Kadın, uzaktan ayartır. Aslında uzaklık, tam da onun güç unsurudur. Yine de onun aldatıcı büyüleme şarkısından uzaklığın korunmasına dikkat edilmelidir. Bir uzaklıktan uzaklık korunmalıdır. Yalnızca onun cazibesinin efsununa karşı korunmak için değil, ayrıca bu efsuna yenik düşmenin bir şekli olarak bu uzaklık zorunludur. (II Jaut la distance (qui faut).) Uzaklığın (Distanz) korunması zorunludur! Bunda başarısız oluruz; uzaklığı korumayı başaramayız. Böylesi bir şey, bir erkeğin diğerine öğüdü de olabilir: Ayartılmadan nasıl ayartacağı hakkında bir tür entrika.
Carey took up the five objections that people raised against missions to heathen lands: their distance, their barbarism, the danger that would be incurred, the difficulties of support, and the unintelligible languages. One by one he answered these. The same obstacles had not prevented the merchants from going to distant shores. “It only requires,” he wrote, “that we should have as much love to the souls of our fellow creatures, and fellow sinners, as they have for the profits arising from a few otter skins, and all these difficulties could be easily surmounted.”
“It’s like that pond I skated on when I was a kid—from a distance, the ice looked so shiny and smooth, until you got close enough to it, and suddenly all the uneven edges and crisscrossed skate marks became visible. That’s me, I guess. Covered with skate marks that nobody ever seems to notice.”
A shooting star flashed in the distance, and she thought of making a wish but realized there was nothing left to hope for.
"I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with 'because'. But I wasn’t trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey."
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And I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries, there could not come a single human value.
