luka
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It's a children's book ffs.
hes got sex on the brain. sex mad sex pervert.
It's a children's book ffs.
It is, but it absolutely has that deliberate layer of symbolism. Veiling of women's power, sexual awakening etc. She says so herself somewhere, can't remember where though.It's a children's book ffs.
It is, but it absolutely has that deliberate layer of symbolism. Veiling of women's power, sexual awakening etc. She says so herself somewhere, can't remember where though.
The subject of The Tombs of Atuan is, if I had to put it in one word, sex. There's a lot of symbolism in the book, most of which I did not, of course, analyze consciously while writing; the symbols can all be read as sexual. More exactly, you could call it a feminine coming of age. Birth, rebirth, destruction, freedom are the themes.
a girl who, like [Ged], had been given a terrible power, but unlike him wasn't taught rightly how to handle it.
It's very weird to me she would write something that's reads as so heavily symbolic unintentionally.
in my experience symbols only really have magical power when they are formulated unconsciously. they become a bit one-dimensional and on the nose otherwise. there has to be a high degree of ambiguity and slippage for them to work. if you say earthquake=sex and nothing else then I think you perform an act of violence to the book. if you say no, it's just an earthquake, well that's obviously equally reductive and injurious
Why do you and Subvert hate woman's sexual pleasure!
in my experience symbols only really have magical power when they are formulated unconsciously. they become a bit one-dimensional and on the nose otherwise. there has to be a high degree of ambiguity and slippage for them to work. if you say earthquake=sex and nothing else then I think you perform an act of violence to the book. if you say no, it's just an earthquake, well that's obviously equally reductive and injurious
Yeah, I wouldn't argue it was *the truth* - just an odd reading (that does come out of reading Reich tbh). I might be sheepishly embarrassed next time I read it. I remember my experience of reading the book though - again, it was so tonally different from the first one I didn't like it. I then reread it some years later with symbolic googles on and found it totally enthralling. That reading of the earthquake came out of this (over?) excited reading.
Will pleasure be allowed then? Spontaneous orgasms for the faithful I'd imagine, sexless years of abstinece for the wicked centrists.no pleasure till Jeremy sits upon his throne and peace reigns throughout the land.
Will pleasure be allowed then? Spontaneous orgasms for the faithful I'd imagine, sexless years of abstinece for the wicked centrists.