Esmeralda Anstrauta
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Esmeralda Anstrauta
“Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to ce
... See moreCommon opinion has it that hunger is the physiological need to eat, whereas appetite is framed as just a desire to eat, driven by emotional or sensory pleasure rather than bodily need. We see this in the division between nutrition and gastronomy, or between food as fuel and food as pleasure.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Recognizing the connections between a culture’s food and its inequities and injustices apparently catalyzes an extreme reaction: utter removal of the self from the corrupt system. (Chris Kraus via Emmeline Clein’s Dead Weight)
The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
The crowd is the flâneur’s indispensable counterpart: the crowd turns people into observable objects . In Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Man in the Crowd’ the protagonist pursues an intriguing figure through the streets of London for a whole night without ever being able to see his face: in big cities, one can stroll through busy streets without recognisin... See more
Alexander • August Flânerie
Teory of dandyism: abundance vs excess, the role of discernment, elegance vs excess
These fragments I have shored against my ruins. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land