One where you hold out a tin cup. "Brother, can ya spare a dime?"
On Aug 26, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:09 PM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
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>> Yes, however the quote: "But frankly, they could read their grocery lists
>> and I’d still hang on their every word, every breath, every squirming
>> movement during their vulnerable, resistant build to orgasm." opens the
>> begged question - it doesn't matter what they're reading. Although if some
>> content were chosen it certainly would - can you imagine say poetry from
>> the trenches of world war one being treated like that? or say passages from
>> the Diary of Anne Frank or the Gulag archipelago? I use those as obvious
>> examples tied to historical atrocities. If it were related to specific
>> texts with cause it be one thing (and the Whitman could be a candidate) but
>> as the aim is so apparently generalised the effect is just that of very
>> soft porn.
>> Of course, if poetry is a cultural consumable commodity only then very soft
>> porn is possibly an apt description of the art. How about Celan's
>> 'Todesfugue' being given the treatment? For myself, at least, I recommend
>> the right of refusal, like breath.
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>> On 25 August 2012 22:04, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHt4IEyYuyQ
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>>> 11m41s of it
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>>> alerted to this by
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>> http://www.salon.com/2012/08/24/turning_orgasm_into_art/?source=newsletter
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