Status Updates From Academonia

-"I love you. "You" and "I" occupy slots in the same sentence and You and I find it so unbelievably sexy."

-"With a handwritten letter there's hard evidence of the physical existence of the sender. A human hand has moved across a page, raining DNA.

But in sexspace who knows? Sexspace is like the moon landing—30% of Americans believe that Ed and Carla's love affair was computer generated."

"Sexspace is a dream that speaks back,"

-"When he shut down everything at once she had no inner resources, just this wracking realization: the master was a fraud, his love plagiarized from Lorca, the Kama Sutra, OS 8.6. "

-"When he shut down everything at once she had no inner resources, just this wracking realization: the master was a fraud, his love plagiarized from Lorca, the Kama Sutra, OS 8.6. "

-"She feels like the figment of someone else's imagination, 
but lacks the composite biography necessary to become that fiction."

-“Humiliation #7: I’ve just finished reading at Cambridge, I’m freaked out by the my cold reception, and then I look at my stomach in horror—my black pants are unzipped revealing a vivid white stripe of panties”

-"Humiliation #9: At work, perched on my drafting table, I have a panic attack. I slip away to the bathroom, lock the door, lie on the floor and give myself an acupressure treatment. The toilet right beside my head, I press my crown chakra until I feel throbbing pulse."

-"The committee suspects I'd be bad at cocktail parties. They're right."

-"Studying these pictures, my only glimpse into her life, I think the obvious—thank god things didn't work out between us."