On 7/28/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie:
> > > Do we have one word that expresses what we want to say just right?
the Earl of Sandwich:
> > May I suggest "holiness" then? Or perhaps "grace"?
Yoshie:
> I slept over these, but grace and holiness don't sound erotic.
>
> Walt Whitman used the term "adhesiveness" (in contrast to heterosexual
> "amativeness"), but outside his poetry it sounds like Scotch tape.
> :-0
but it reminds me of duct tape. And we know that duct tape is like the
Force: not only does it hold the universe together, but there's a Dark
side and a Light side.
by the way, here are some synonyms for adhesiveness: tackiness,
glueyness, gumminess. Why didn't Whitman use one of those in his
samplers? (viscidness, anyone?)
Oh, Jim, I knew there was no poetry in you when the title of a
feminist documentary reminded you of an issue of Playboy. :-0
BTW, to understand why Iran, as well as Arab society, is more
erotically interesting than the West, you can live the age of Walt
Whitman in your imagination, the age before the emergence of a new
episteme, i.e. "sexual identities" under the hegemony of
"heterosexuality," the age when friendships between men, as well as
between women, weren't threatened with men's failures to become
"heterosexuals." . . . I'm sure that's what Foucault enjoyed about
Iran.
--
Yoshie
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