41 The trauma of language |
Words were trauma. Words were violence. Words were bars of ink we bolted across our ever-shifting souls. Words were limit but also words were identity, and a being without identity is a non-being, it ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:32:00 GMT |
40 Desire |
And so we kept our mouths shut. Only did we ever open our mouths to drink and to eat. We drank and we ate shit that was bad for us. Consuming we were best at. Creating we were worst at. To endlessly c...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT |
39 Words... |
We opened our mouths and the words failed to come out. The words were stuck somewhere in the back of our heads. The words were lodged somewhere, no not lodged, but not yet formed. The process of speak...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:52:00 GMT |
38. The real |
We glimpsed now and then what we would have been and still could be. We glimpsed what we would look like and what the world would look like if we could see without recourse to hypnotic states. These v...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:49:00 GMT |
36. The dark... |
Gradually we grew accustomed to the dark. The straw we lay on smelled good to us, smelled real, and God knows there wasn't enough of that up there! But what were we to do now? How were we to climb out...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:23:00 GMT |
35. Men... |
As boys we took drastic steps to appear like men. We shaved back our hairlines. We smoked. We walked in a way we imagined was a manly way to walk. And when we were grown up we found that what we had s...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:18:00 GMT |
34. And still... |
And still we found ourselves here. After all the therapy money could buy. We were no better off. We kept reminding ourselves there was nowhere to get but it didn't help. In the end we had to conclude ...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:27:00 GMT |
33. On the unbearable lightness of being... |
Eating became, for some of us, a common way of forgetting, of sleeping, or of making bodily sense of some experience we hadn't been able to metabolise earlier. At least we felt substantial when our st...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:32:00 GMT |
32. Loreta the depressive... |
And what about depression as identity? There's this website I've found called Depression Tribe. I think it's American. Everybody seems to believe in God any way, although he doesn't seem able to help ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:55:00 GMT |
32. How do you think you are..? |
I said depression served to prevent us from getting in the way of our own desire and that the reason for not wanting to get in the way of our own desire is that it could be dangerous. I didn't really ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:03:00 GMT |
