Citizen.Coping: "While the future is a declaration of a fact… the subjunctive meanders, ponders, tempts, always looking sideways. There, where the future tense plows through, having chosen a path among many, decisively activating one option among the millions… the subjunctive embraces them all, keeping them alive."

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Dean Barker deanbarker.bsky.social · Apr 11
This is great - thanks for sharing. When I teach the subjunctive, I like to point out that it is the mood of the un-real.

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"While the future is a declaration of a fact… the subjunctive meanders, ponders, tempts, always looking sideways. There, where the future tense plows through, having chosen a path among many, decisively activating one option among the millions… the subjunctive embraces them all, keeping them alive."
- Citizen.Coping propcazhpm.bsky.social · Apr 11
  In her essay in "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World", right after her 5th thesis, "The subjunctive is the smuggler who crosses he border of the future bearing unknown cargo", Cristina Rivera Garza cites the poem "Summer Vacation in the Subjunctive" by Ashley M. Jones. #Lit #Poetry #LangSky
  Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce and Cristina Rivera Garza | Penguin Random House Canada
  
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Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce and Cristina Rivera Garza | Penguin Random House Canada