Monday, May 31, 2004
"What we seek in a love-affair is not self-gratification; not even confirmation of our own objective reality, as in a mirror (though that comes into it); but an escape from the uniqueness of our own subjectivity. we want to come face to face with the naked subjectivity of another human being, and to feel that this other human being has come close to our own subjectivity."
and it goes on: "This is why the sexual act is feared. This is why we feel uneasy about the idea of its being watched. To a greater or lesser extent it symbolizes the self-revelation and self-dissolution of love."- Michael Frayn
Examine. Discuss.
Though this little book (Constructions) fell into my lap while I was discharging stuff at the library, it doesn't have quite the revelatory power I suppose I had hoped it would have. Ann Fadiman's Ex Libris, another little book that literally (ha. HAHAHA) fell from the shelf once, set a high standard. I suppose I find it incomplete, partial in the wrong places, enough so even that I notice (which is a rare thing). But novel, and perhaps true when the lighting is right.
and it goes on: "This is why the sexual act is feared. This is why we feel uneasy about the idea of its being watched. To a greater or lesser extent it symbolizes the self-revelation and self-dissolution of love."- Michael Frayn
Examine. Discuss.
Though this little book (Constructions) fell into my lap while I was discharging stuff at the library, it doesn't have quite the revelatory power I suppose I had hoped it would have. Ann Fadiman's Ex Libris, another little book that literally (ha. HAHAHA) fell from the shelf once, set a high standard. I suppose I find it incomplete, partial in the wrong places, enough so even that I notice (which is a rare thing). But novel, and perhaps true when the lighting is right.
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