Notes from Source: An artist’s life is an unconventional life….It appears to rebel but in reality it is an inspired way of life. —Agnes Martin, “Advice to Young Artists” I’m reading Anne Carson again. I didn’t know what else to do; a former lover recently took his life, in a way that my mind keeps replaying, on a secluded beach in Hawaii. Carson’s scholarship on ancient Greek love is strangely consoling. With any two lovers, she writes in Eros the Bittersweet, there is “erotic emotion that sets the interval between two people vibrating.