novembre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- disconnect "When the socialized self is experienced as a limitation the human body is prized not for what it discloses of personality but for the promise it offers of leaving personality behind. "Even when the body is used as an instrument of personal liberation it is freedom from personality that is the goal. "Alongside the meanings in terms of which we habitually understand our lives there is another region of experience, at once terrifying and somehow enticing, where no trace of meaning can be found." -- John Gray, from the introductory essay THE LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY: BALLARD, BACON, AND SAVILLE in the book JENNY SAVILLE "He does not know what he wants; he wants what he does not want; he does not want what he wants; he wants to want; he sees within himself something which is not himself, and which is stronger than himself." -- Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) as quoted in Gray's essay 12:03 am - 11.23.07 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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