Dom
'The garboard strake leaks, the seams need caulking'
But also a 'woodthrush calling'
best
David
On 25 November 2011 22:54, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Lauren Berlant (who I often find infuriating, but persistently so, the
> infuriation lasting and softening and becoming something like a
> disagreement with myself in which I have to learn patience all over
> again) has a good page on Eve Sedgwick
> (
> http://supervalentthought.com/2010/03/18/after-eve-in-honor-of-eve-kosofsky-sedgwick/
> ).
>
> I love that she chose as her totem animal the panda. We are all
> getting closer to extinction every day, but we don't have to be
> frantic about it, or at least not all the time. An aspect of
> "queerness", maybe, is that selves imagined as towers of strength are
> always already crumbling, falling to the vines. I read that the panda
> was for her both an erotic totem and a symbol of "sexual incompetence"
> - failure to propagate, to pay one's dues to the "reproductive
> futurism" Lee Edelman denounced so splendidly.
>
> Some way into a depression, perhaps a few weeks now, I find myself
> thinking about what it might be like to be a panda, or to choose that
> as one's totem. For much of this year I've had a book I was meant to
> be writing which I haven't been, and it's something quite panda-like
> in me that is content with this fact and able to live with it,
> indefinitely if needs be. Well, not indefinitely. A while back I heard
> someone reading D. H. Lawrence's "The Ship of Death" on the radio, and
> realised almost straight away that that was what I needed to be doing:
> building my ship of death. A book can be part of that, but a book that
> isn't part of that isn't one that I need to be writing just now. Just
> sit there and chew your bamboo for a bit, there's a good panda.
>
> I envy Chris his boat, even though it's leaking, and even though I
> know nothing at all about boats.
>
> Dominic
>
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