Tuesday 3 September 2013

Having orgasm while you are creating something.

Miranda July's new project "We Think Alone", has been proceeding it's 9th week.  Every week we received private emails of individual participants on different topics or their motif when they were writing emails.

One of the email from Etgar with two book reading attached in his email on what he's working on, a story "Unzipped" read by Miranda July.

It was mentioned in the reading that a Belgium writer- his penis would erect while he is writing.  I found that I have the same feeling before, not the erection though, but the feeling of falling in love. Whenever my thought achieved some kind of senses of enlightenment, I would feel my body just couldn't sit in front of the table anymore and I have to keep moving around or finding other more active things to do meanwhile biting my hands and accelerated heartbeats.

Having been enchanted by film "9 Songs" by filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, the lovers would always make passionate love after each concert they saw. This makes me wonder, maybe creativity is coming from a sort of desire that is to communicate, just like how sperms would automatically swim to the ovum, it is the desire of reaching something that creates the path towards the direction, no matter fast or slow, the path it creates is aiming at the moment, not the result, perhaps.  Apart from the example of the Belgium writer, I also have an example from the TV series "Don't trust the bitch at Apartment 23" where Chloe has difficulties about figuring out her life or next step, she would just go out to have one night stand with some hot guy and during their sex, the idea would come out.

Is it what platonic love really means? Is it how the eternity in an hour (William Blake) is about?
Speaking of platonic love, perhaps it was never about getting "the one" or "accomplishment", it was always about the feeling of longing, the rite of passage.  A good film performance by Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy that Charlotte develops affection towards Van Wetter from the love letters they exchange, he wasn't the only one that got her letters at the beginning, but he was somehow the only one that didn't mention about sex intercourse in the letters to Charlotte, as oppose to other criminals who were verbally raping Charlotte when they were writing the reply. This makes Van Wetter stands out and the desire between the two was so strong that they both achieve orgasm from distance when they met each other for the first time. Their love ends when Van Wetter got out of the jail and they live together.



This has no conclusion, because this post is never about finding out what happened after orgasm, but the process of achieving orgasm.

Post coïtum animal triste is too cruel to be written into this post, perhaps the endless longing for something else is the nature of human being, so why were we want it so much if at the end we won't appreciate it? 


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