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Paula Isidora
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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
― Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. The emotion derives from a double contact: on the one hand, a whole activity of discourse discreetly, indirectly focuses upon a single signified, which is "I desire you," and releases, nourishes, ramifies it to the point of explosion (language experiences orgasm upon touching itself); on the other hand, I enwrap the other in my words, I caress, brush against, talk up this contact, I extend myself to make the commentary to which I submit the relation endure. ”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― The Pleasure of the Text
― The Pleasure of the Text
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