Saturday, January 26, 2008

The concept of energy is abstracted from the experience of desire. The desire is to incorporate the other. The act of incorporation is the act of copulation.

"Eating is the form of the fall. The woman gave me and I did eat. Eating is the form of sex. Copulation is oral copulation; when the Aranda ask each other, 'Have you eaten?' they mean 'Have you had intercourse?'" Love's Body. 166.

The desire to incorporate is the source of the ordering of the dream body. When hunger stirs, the body awakens. The dream body is satiate; it is full, and thus free of the desire to eat. But hunger is just sleeping; the satiety of the body implies a hunger. Upon awakening that hunger is explicit.

Every story begins with an awakening and every story ends with a fall into sleep. The story unfolds within the dream and refolds into the dream; the dream contains the story. Hunger is a response to the perception of an empty space within the body. Eating perpetuates the empty space; it is only in the dissipation of the desire to eat that the empty space is once again full.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The story writes itself; a story is a collective enterprise, a social production. The story depends upon groups; evolution depends upon species. If the many are not divided into groups, there is no time machine. Dreaming tends toward manyness, toward the dissolution of all boundaries between the people, and between the people and the world.

The dream people are not members of any group; everyone is an orphan and gender is inderminate. The dream is delirium.

"Contrary to what is taken for granted in the lunatic state called normalcy or common sense, the distinction between self and external world is not an immutable fact, but an artificial construction. It is a boundary line; like all boundaries not natural but conventional; like all boundaries, based on love and hate." Love's Body. 142.

The answer to the question," How is a time machine constructed?", is the answer to the question, "How is a group constructed?" According to the evidence of our own experience, there is within the dream body, an implicit desire to awaken, and this desire to awaken from delirium is the source of the story.