I love that quote from Iggy, he's awesome. For the record, my first impression of you wasn't "Wow, she's so female"; it was "Wow, she's so..." and then I struggle to find the right word; something like radiant, I think, but in the literal sense of beaming out energy and power. But not power in a treading-on-peasants way. Physics, not politics.
If you'll excuse me for a bit of a train-of-thought ramble, one of the words that was jostling in that decision was "beaming", not as in smiling (although that too, come to think of it), but, y'know, with beams. In mediaeval church art, Moses is often shown as having little goat-y horns, because of a mistranslation; in one part of Exodus, he's described coming down from the mountain, having had a chat with god, and his face is beaming or radiant. Only someone translated that as "He had beams coming out of his head", which didn't make sense, so they turned his beams into horns.
The femaleness was merely the shape of the container for the nuclear fusion reaction. An excellent shape and very decorative, obv, but the map is not the territory.
It's astoundingly vicious, isn't it? Always reminds me of Bukowski: "and then they will hate you, and their hatred will be perfect / like a shining diamond / like a knife / like a mountain / like a tiger / like hemlock. / Their finest art."
At this point I throw my hands up in the air and think of nice things, because dwelling on what I've internalised due to the startlingly negative reactions of other people isn't going to end in a happy place.
It's not fine, keen, shining or perfect. It's a scrappy mess of prejudices and vitrol with no guiding force or ideology, and is the equivalent of chimps in the zoo throwing shit at the crowd.
I will say this for religious hatred - at least it's got a certain purity of focus.
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For the record, my first impression of you wasn't "Wow, she's so female"; it was "Wow, she's so..." and then I struggle to find the right word; something like radiant, I think, but in the literal sense of beaming out energy and power. But not power in a treading-on-peasants way. Physics, not politics.
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In mediaeval church art, Moses is often shown as having little goat-y horns, because of a mistranslation; in one part of Exodus, he's described coming down from the mountain, having had a chat with god, and his face is beaming or radiant. Only someone translated that as "He had beams coming out of his head", which didn't make sense, so they turned his beams into horns.
So there we go; you are horny.
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The femaleness was merely the shape of the container for the nuclear fusion reaction. An excellent shape and very decorative, obv, but the map is not the territory.
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I have no idea if this means he will be wearing a cassock.
*Parade's End, BBC2, 9pm next Friday.
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No. Shit.
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I will say this for religious hatred - at least it's got a certain purity of focus.
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