archives for Thursday 14 August 2008
resisting the power of the bear
Thursday 14 August 2008 | I like a cookie
The heroine-choicemaker, unlike her male counterpart, can be threatened by the overpowering pull of maternal instinct. A woman may become pregnant at an inopportune time or in adverse circumstances, if she cannot resist Aphrodite and/or Demeter. When this happens, she may be diverted from a chosen path—the choice-maker as a captive of her instinct.
For example, […]
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oneiric
Thursday 14 August 2008 | 4 cookies in the jar
In my dream, I want Mandarin to fight me—physically fight me. She, understandably, does not want to do this: she’s taken vows of non-violence, she protests; she’s not even mad at me, she certainly doesn’t want to hit me.
So I taunt her into it, following her from room to room verbally goading her, until finally, […]
the end is nigher
Thursday 14 August 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar
From the astonishingly profound depths of what is apparently nothing more fancy than a GI virus plus ongoing proto-anaemia, I wallow up from the mattress briefly to bring you one of the freakiest late-capitalist resource-sinks I’ve seen in a while (though neither San Francisco nor Tartarus are exactly short on ‘em):
Harvest your now-precious menstrual fluid […]
