That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it someti — Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
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That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

— Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
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