Lispector’s Obsession
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Tweeting Clarice Lispector’s “Obsession”, one sentence a day.
Joined May 2022
I really did make friends quickly, with my good-natured, easygoing cheer.
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There I would have the chance to meet other boys and girls, Mama said.
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We moved to a house closer to the city, in a neighbourhood whose name, along with other subsequent details, I shall suppress.
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I accepted the discovery and it’s consequences without much commotion, in the same distracted way that I studied, went out, read, and lived.
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Until one day they discovered I was a young lady, lowered the hem of my dress, made me wear new clothes and considered me almost ready.
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We lived, from childhood until I was fourteen, in a nice house on the outskirts of town, where I went to school, played and roamed without a care beneath the benevolent gaze of my parents.
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I was born of simple creatures, steeped in that wisdom one acquires through experience and figures out with common sense.
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I was always serene and never showed the least sign of possessing those elements that Daniel brought out in me.
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Though I didn’t think one could entirely comprehend why those seeds bore such sad fruit.
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Only thus can one understand the ground in which his seeds were scattered.
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I must tell a bit about myself, before my encounter with Daniel.
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I transformed myself independently of my consciousness and when I opened my eyes the poison was circulating through my blood irremediably, it’s power already ancient.
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Now that the affair is behind me, I can recollect it more serenely.
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