Wednesday, March 21, 2007

A rainforest of sterebolic anoids.

The passage that begins “Orin (‘O.’) Incandenza stands embracing a putatively Swiss hand model in a rented room. They embrace. Their faces become sexual faces.” , (which is a peculiar but otherwise great line in the first place, describes the sexual interaction between the two in a way that carnal encounters are not often considered, or at least discussed outside the realm of physical or emotional connections of a love/lust combination (p 565-566). Love is an object and O is the victor; sex is made a possession, a necessity, similar to drugs in many cases: they no longer drugs and no longer addressed in the usual manner; they are temples, they are personality traits, they are daemons and they are friends.

The Concavity is spoken of in a manner similar to the way we talked about it in class last week in a conversation that resembles one go on in a math room at Payton, from sports and experimentation to random bits of information of people involved at school to God and triangles to conceptual physics and toxic waste, all the while including phrases like ‘my head is spinning on its axis’ (p 517).

In this weeks’ section, Joelle talks directly about her veil, and the concept of hiding, related to the shame in wanting to hide. I found very interesting the way she speaks of hiding from hiding, putting one’s self out in plain view and being forced into exactly that which you want to shrink away from. Though perhaps a bit counterintuitive, this is potentially logical if the intent is to fight the urge to hide or the related self-esteem or deprecation in terms of the physical or mental cause of one’s veil, whether literally a physical veil such as hers or a veil of one’s actions, traits, or addictions.

TTFN, L.L, PDA

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