Status Updates From Motion Sickness (Masks)

“I have no idea how people learn to dance in different countries or why people move differently in different countries or why they hear what rhythms they hear that move them into different elaborations on basic themes. If dancing has to do with fuck-ing, if rhythm is based on the beat of the heart. Though just because the heart beats and has a rhythm may have nothing to do with music. I lose the beat.”

‘If there isn’t a word for guilt, movies or sex in some culture, could I really exist there?’

‘Am I fucking Yugoslavia, remotely learning about a place I haven’t visited, will I go to Belgrade as he’s asked me, when, stroking my arm he called me something in Serbo-Croatian that I can’t repeat…He says nothing. He bites me on my shoulder. He kisses me everywhere, in every place. In every place without a name’

‘I’m not sure, though, what importance beauty has except for the peace it gives me. But is that enough?… In bed I feel like a body claimed by a name. Then a name claimed by a body. A thing, a human thing, small and powerless. I don’t confide these thoughts to her. Beauty has never had much importance to me’

[redacted] was [redacted] in the red light district…. Jaw drop