Faith Williams’s Reviews > Motion Sickness > Status Update

‘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’