VLVL [8] When BV possessed her

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Thu Jan 21 16:39:08 CST 1999


At 9:49 -0800 1/21/99, Paul Mackin wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
>> I think there is
>> more to this confused-sex-game then BV’s rapture and F’s postpartum
>> depression. How about their dreams, their fears, their sexuality,
>>death/birth,
>> their gun/camera/penis? What happened in that “minute and a half” when BV
>> possessed her? When she was split in two, when Weed was shot? Did BV
>>more than
>> taste the innocent math man’s creative juices in F?
>
>
>Perhaps we could riff a bit on the phrase "possessed her." We think first
>of phyical possession as in the sexual sense but of course nobody ever
>really possesses anyone in this sense. Dare we entertain another sense,
>the sense of bewitchment (or in this case beWARLOCKment perhaps) as in
>satanic possession? Some Pynchon Magic rearing up to meet us?
>There is something not EVERYDAY going on here.

Slavery.

Cheers,
David



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