Giving a thing, an animal, or an abstract idea the actions, feelings, or speech of a person.
In One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Who was it? It was nothing. No one. A poor mortified body, waiting for someone to take it for his own.
The "mortified" body is "waiting for someone to take it" as one waits for an owner. The waiting gives will to something that by definition has none, and makes the emptiness look like abandonment.
You do not want your feeling to be blind. You make it open its eyes and see itself in a mirror that you always hold up before it. And the feeling, as soon as it sees itself, freezes within you. One cannot live in front of a mirror.
Book VII: The revolver and the bishop, Vitangelo Moscarda to Anna Rosa, just before the shot
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