"Tess writes entirely to find out what she's thinking." - Joan Didion

Sep 11, 2010

Knowing

[Maybe now 6S will finally acknowledge my genius!]

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The men of the Bible don't copulate or fornicate, and they certainly never screw or fuck; they just "know". How oblique, how laughable. Despite its goofy sound, in naked definition the term is surprisingly intimate; when a man knows a woman, he learns what it's like to be inside her. But is this privilege reserved only for the heterosexual bearers of the almighty phallus? Isn't it terribly arrogant, hopelessly ignorant, to assume that sex singly illuminates the depth and secrets of a person's being? Yet the wise men pump away, and the women beneath them stare up at the ceiling, knowing only that they know nothing.

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