| D.Lodge 'Small World' |
Oct. 20th, 2011|04:51 pm |
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[..] reading - it is not a to-and-fro process, but an endless, tantalizing leading on, flirtation without consummation, or if there is consummation, it is solitary, masturbatory. The reader plays with himself as the text plays upon him, plays upon his curiosity, desire, as a striptease dancer plays upon her audience's curiosity and desire. [..]Freud said that obsessive reading[..] is the displaced expression of desire to see the mother's genitails. [..]There was a time when reading was a comparatively simple matter, something you learned to do in primary school. Now it seem to be some kind of arcane mystery, into which only a small elite have been initiated. |
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