Monday, February 26, 2024

Daydreams, like drugs...

 “I visualized everything [in daydream]... Rose came in as Simon was kissing me and was absolutely livid—or was that in a later imagining? There have been so many that they have gradually merged into each other. I don't think I could bring myself to describe any of them in detail because, though they are wonderful at the time, they give a flat, sick, ashamed feeling to look back on. And they are like a drug, one needs them oftener and oftener and had to make them more and more exciting—until at last one's imagination won't work at all. ”

—Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, pg. 230

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Winner, best follow-up question, perhaps ever:

LUCE IRIGARAY: ...what a feminine syntax might be is not simple nor easy to state, because in that "syntax" there would no longer be either subject or object, "oneness" would no longer be privileged, there would no longer be proper meanings, proper names, "proper" attributes... instead, that "syntax" would involve nearness, proximity, but in such an extreme form that it would preclude any distinction of identities, any establishment of ownership, thus any form of appropriation.

Q: Can you give some examples of that syntax?


-This Sex Which Is Not One, pg.134