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February 04, 2005

be my valentine

Women fuck ... because, like men, they are trapped in a biological universe where the species that do not propagate disappear; the traits the survivors harbor--lustiness, speed, canniness, camouflage--are soaked in these disappearances, these multitudinous deaths. Sex is a programmed delirium that rolls back death with death's own substance; it is the black space between the stars given sweet substance in our veins and crevices. The parts of ourselves conventional decency calls shameful are exalted. We are told that we shine, that we are splendid, and the naked bodies we were given in the bloody moment of birth hold all the answers that another, the other, desires, now and forever.
^{John Updike}

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