http://www.briancharlesclark.com/pornografia-by-witold-gombrowicz/ A Journal of the Irrepressible Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.briancharlesclark.com/pornografia-by-witold-gombrowicz/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 zoe Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:38:03 +0000 http://www.briancharlesclark.com/?p=621#comment-1755 that's interesting--i felt the same way about ballard's books...but, to be honest, with the horrible things he was addressing, i was glad to be spared the emotional side of the stories. it was difficult enough to survive the intellectual impact. i also feel that the words and images we use perpetuate themselves--they incarnate? and then they continue to spill forth from the lips of their incarnations, as they become more and more solid as belief systems, as ways of seeing/perceiving/existing...so i wonder, why write these kinds of stories? why create more of these particular words and images? that’s interesting–i felt the same way about ballard’s books…but, to be honest, with the horrible things he was addressing, i was glad to be spared the emotional side of the stories. it was difficult enough to survive the intellectual impact.
i also feel that the words and images we use perpetuate themselves–they incarnate? and then they continue to spill forth from the lips of their incarnations, as they become more and more solid as belief systems, as ways of seeing/perceiving/existing…so i wonder, why write these kinds of stories? why create more of these particular words and images?

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