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[derghaust]

Naked and porcine pink, kneeling down with greening porcelain all about, flopping between my legs. Grubbing hairs out with the fingertips working blind in the hole. Fingers through water standing since the last time, swirling the murk and silt into dancing spirals. This black mess I'm piling next to the drain, mess of hairs black with dirt and skin

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[halfjapanesesal]

lovely!

[derghaust]

thank you sally!

:)

the plumbing of modern life by margaret morgan

[halfjapanesesal]

have you read it?

she's talking about public bathrooms specifically in this part, but i think it fits

[halfjapanesesal]

somebody feels like typing

Plumbing, with every sanitary flush, with every gleaming knob and valve, every glint on the surface of the porcelain, is meant to allow you efficiently to forget about the fact of your personal self. One quick flush and you're gone. The public bathroom is meant to be clean, devoid of matter-out-of-place - shit, piss and homey decoration - devoid of signs of the very human presence for which it is intended. But with each raised and lowered seat, every splash of urine, every tear of toilet paper littering the floor, the bathroom and its plumbing point to the impossibility of keeping intimacy (the personal) out of the public, and of keeping the sovereign individual free of contamination. Thus, paradoxically, plumbing also connects you to every other denizen in the communal rush to separation.

Re: she's talking about public bathrooms specifically in this part, but i think it fits

[derghaust]

I haven't heard of this before, but if it's all so good I think I'll have to pick it up.

"Lesson Number 1: No one likes your doo-doo. It goes somewhere secret, or it stays in your butt."

Anyway, I guess lately I've just been thinking that people shouldn't be able to get off so easily. Turning a blind eye to an uncomfortable truth, or forgetfullness... The things most people want to cast away are the things I want, in some perverse fashion. I want to live the uncomfortable truth and remember the things I want to forget. I don't know how well I'm doing.

Re: she's talking about public bathrooms specifically in this part, but i think it fits

[derghaust]

well...the invalid video url was supposed to point here, i guess you'll have to open a new window. maybe even (gasp) cut and paste the link. the rest of the video doesn't relate much, only that quote. and probably doesn't even make much sense because it's part ii in a iv part series. but the guy who made it is a genius and i think everyone should watch them anyway.

http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BBC1D6F42DBC7710C8DBD6A240EA4963E7

well shit

[halfjapanesesal]

guess i'll be making out with the back of my hand for the next half hour and pretending its brad neely. i forgot about him. he's awesome.

if you wanna you can read the full margaret morgan article here, apparently: http://www.margaretmorgan.com/articles/jpcs/index.html

[block_capitals]

when i shower, i molt. my hair sticks to my shoulders and arms. i peel each one off of my skin, careful and precise. i methodically stick each one to the wall of the shower, a sort of constellation of discarded experience. when it dries i wipe it off with toilet paper and flush it down the toilet.

[derghaust]

I used to find her hairs stuck to the walls just so. I used to find them everywhere.

[vichywater]

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