2.27.2007

Critical Questions

How is the text marked by desire?
excess?
gender?
love?
secrets?

How is the text marked by fingerprints?
fingertips?
jam stains?
coffee breath?
lettuce?
all of us?
taxi drivers?
grandmothers?
ex boyfriends?
mimosas?
junkyards?
string theory?
lines?
other spots?
interstitial fluid?

How is this text marked by secondary experiences?
chopped liver?
coats and a fedora?
strangle hold?
mochiattas?
liminality?
luminosity?
single space?
double spaced?
double time?
placards?
bad haircuts?

How does this text negotiate symptoms of boredom?
symptoms of depression?
symptoms of the flu?
symptoms of intrigue?
symptoms of lovesickness?
symptoms of heartbreak?
symptoms of a bad diet?
symptoms of modernity/post modernity/post post modernity/revolting modernity/turning back to tradition modernity/ancient modernity/Shakespeare's modernity/Marx's modernity/tomorrows modernity/elaborated modernity/sylphlike modernity
symptoms of incessant smiling like a fool?

Recurring themes within the text include shoelaces.
tic tac toe.
pierced ears.
lipstick stained collarbones.
warm rooms filled with sunlight.
leopard print.
self-creation.

The text creates parallels between language and decoration.
dreamscape and footsteps.
tiger eyes and rabbit tails.
transcripts and gravestones.
love letters and graffiti breasts.
envelopes and envelope.
stuttered responses and downhill skiing.
ring tones and feathers falling from an old tired bird.
full time and a hungry vicious winding road that ends on a cliff facing away from the sun.
tender wolves and a giant empty space filled with yellowed hair.

This text depends on the rhetoric of a lady on a road bike in the Montreal sun. She's sweating a little bit. This rhetoric is self dreamt, and struggling in conception.

1 comment:

morganeliasmurray said...

Jonah was devoured by a sperm whale so the sperm whale could grow stronger, run faster, throw further, and jump higher. Jonah was devoured by a sperm whale so the sperm whale could excel at amateur athletics in a time when amateur is a dying breed and not held in as high regard as it once was. Jonah was devoured by a sperm whale so the sperm whale could win bits of shiny metal on bits of string. Jonah was devoured by a sperm whale so the sperm whale could piss in a paper cup after winning a bit of shiny metal on a bit of string in a footrace against other sperm whales from other places. Jonah was devoured by a sperm whale so the sperm whale could carry his places bit of cloth into a stadium full of smaller and weaker sperm whales. Jonah was devoured by a sperm whale so the sperm whale could get laid. Jonah was food.