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| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
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Riding the mystery
| | Susannah Breslin (whom some of you might remember as the blogteur of the late Reverse Cowgirl) is back with a new blog, and a literally novel book project: Porn Happy. An excerpt from the work in progress: |
| | Sex is war, a fight for survival, a means to an ends, an insistence on living by a dying animal. Porn is irrelevant, a newfangled form of entertainment, a sign of the end of days, a true testament to who we really are. Everybody is to blame, but nobody is aware. Everyone cares, and no one can stop it. There are raids, indictments, trials. These are our tax dollars at work. There are billions in income, piles of consensually signed contracts, a great crossing o'er the mainstream by flocks of young porn starlets. That means this. This means that. There is no answer to this line of questioning. This is an epic battle between right and wrong, a Herculean contest over good and evil, and shit happens. If you think this is something, my friend, wait until you see what's coming. If you think you've seen it all, wait until you see what you haven't yet seen. We are so very curious, aren't we, after all? If only we knew of what we are truly capable. In the future, all this will be entirely plausible. Look around you. It's already here. This is the walking embodiment of the uncensored mind. These are uncharted waters. This is a story about that which you don't care to see. Let us look one another in the eye. As you do so, please remind yourself: I understand you. |
| | You see, the first time I drove into Porn Valley, I knew, for me, it wasn't about pornography. It was about whatever the opposite of death was... |
| | Porn is the elephant in the middle of the Web's room. Susannah knows more about the subject than anybody else, I suspect. Including: why it's there; and why most of us don't listen to it, even when it's our most secret companion. |
| | A wise priest once told me Life and death are both mysteries, an death is just the one we know we can't solve. Another said Some truths are so deep only stories can tell them. |
| | Both come to mind when I read Susannah. |
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