“On the bridge, near your life, I lived as a guitar player lived near his star.
Sing for me, she said, a hundred of your love songs and you will enter my life!
So he sang ninety-nine songs about love, then killed himself.”
― The Butterfly's Burden
Sing for me, she said, a hundred of your love songs and you will enter my life!
So he sang ninety-nine songs about love, then killed himself.”
― The Butterfly's Burden
“Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance. ”
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“Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.”
― The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
― The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
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