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Love’s Wordless Understanding: What Does It Mean?
There’s a story, from one of my all time favorite books, that goes something like this: a musician plays a beautiful and complex piece of music for an attentive listener. When the musician concludes the piece, the listener asks, “what does it mean?” The musician, as a answer, plays the piece again, note for note. […]
Art Imitating Life Imitating Art Imitating Life Imitating Art.
December 5, 2011
In chapter 7 of my novel, A Derivation of Love, Desmond decides to write a semi-autobiographical novel about boys and girls and the problems between them. The chapter concludes when a friend tells him to put lots of sex in the book, otherwise, “it won’t sell.” At this stage in the novel, which has been […]
A Derivation of Love: An Experiment in Failure.
November 14, 2011
In November of 2001, I set out to fail. I had decided, once and for all, to write a novel. Unfortunately, I had also recently decided that the novel is impossible (to borrow a fashionable phrase of the time.) A novel is impossible, I thought, because it is impossible to capture or represent a life […]
Philia v. Eros: What (How Deep) is Your Love?
November 5, 2011
For all women, there is at least one person she is meant to love with all her heart and not to desire sexually. For all men, there is at least one person he is meant to love with all his heart and not to desire sexually. Depending on a person’s sexuality, it will either be […]
Love Needs Something To Conquer, If It’s To Conquer All.
October 23, 2011
I’ve been thinking about my past romantic relationships and I think I see a pattern. In all my serious relationships, there always seems to be an insurmountable obstacle to overcome — like she wants something out of life I’m pretty sure I don’t or vice versa. At first, I thought this pattern might be symptomatic […]
A Voice Of Venus: Feel It, Express it, Release it
January 14, 2010
On Tuesday, I went to Nadine’s featured spoken-word set at the female-focussed (but friendly to all) Voices of Venus (at Umi Cafe). This was my third time attending the monthly event which includes an all woman open-mic set followed by a set featuring one woman poet. Each time I’ve attended, I’ve enjoyed myself and encountered […]
I Was So Much Older Then, I’m Younger Than That Now: How Old Are You Now?
December 16, 2009
By the time I entered university at twenty, I had been falling in and out of love with girls for as long as I could remember. Most often, it was friends or classmates or scene partners but even a stranger’s glance in a passing bus window could haunt me for months. In practice, my love […]
Plato’s Sneer: Love And Desire As You Please, So Long As You Love And Desire Those Like Me
October 15, 2009
I’ve seen it time and again and it has happened to me. A platonic female friend sneers, “that’s who you find attractive, that’s what you find attractive in a girl / woman.” It took me a long time to realize that the sneer should be translated as, “she is not like me.” It took me […]
slapfatass
December 15, 2008
The Princess of Pudding and the Paperbag Princess says she has taken great delight in the phrase “slapfatass” which can be found in the poem below. That seemed as good a reason as any to highlight this poem with a post of its own. It can be found in Seven Old Poems–just click here. ——– through the […]
December 12, 2011
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