Status Updates From Eros the Bittersweet

'To create pleasure and pain at once is the novelist’s aim. We should
dwell on this point for a moment. It is of some importance that, as
readers, we are typically and repeatedly drawn into a conflicted
emotional response which approximates that of the lover’s soul
divided by desire. Readership itself affords the aesthetic distance and
obliquity necessary for this response.'

so true

"Let us superimpose on the question ‘What does the lover want from love’ the questions ‘What does the reader want from reading? What is the
writer’s desire?’ Novels are the answer."

this too is orv...

'Only a god’s word has no beginning or end. Only a god’s desire can reach without lack. Only the paradoxical god of desire, exception to all these rules, is neverendingly filled with lack itself.'

'Something paradoxical arrests the lover. Arrest occurs at a point of inconcinnity between the actual and the possible, a blind point where the reality of what we are disappears into the possibility of what we could be if we were other than we are. But we are not.'

“Ay, camarada, el afloja-miembros me aplasta: el deseo.”……..