I Don’t Want to Go Back
This is the first installment of a column on sex…
Transfixing
I had gone to volunteer at the gay history archive in Cologne because I was going insane.
My Beautiful FriendI resent her as much as I exult in her company. In between us, and without words for it, the female universe dilates, a continuum whose comparative alchemy seems designed to confront me, make me suffer, lift her up. Her protagonism diminishes me, or does it?
Unnatural GiftsI suspect that everyone has met someone like the woman I admired, someone unassuming who nonetheless manages to surpass the scaffolding of her body by way of her aesthetic ingenuity. There is something heroic about such people.
Double RealityThe same forces that have made an “art market” as a subset of the speculative market society itself have created a role for the aesthetic that as often as not reinforces the values we already hold rather than making possible the true work of art.
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