Thursday, July 17, 2025

East Broadway Ann

"Albertine came from nowhere, and is very modern in that way: she flutters, comes and goes, from her absence of attachments she derives the instability and the unpredictable quality which give her her power of freedom." Jacques Dubois, For Albertine: Proust and the Sense of the Social.

1.

The Young-Girl is fascinating in the manner of all things that exhibit a closing-in-on-themselves, a mechanical self-sufficiency to the observer, like the insect, the infant, the automaton, or Foucault's pendulum.

The Young-Girl wants to be desired without love or loved without desire. There is no threat, in either case, to her unhappiness. The Young-Girl has love stories.

It is enough to recall what she classifies as "adventure" to get a good idea of just how much the Young-Girl fears the possible.

2.

Femininity = infantilism of women

Masculinity = infantilism of men

3. 

"I'll scream if you come any closer."

I'm no subject, I'm just stuck.

4. 

It's 1941, it's 1944
I'm in Dimes Square. I'm in Bergen-Belsen.
Sty medication dripping down your sweat-soaked shoulders 
Your drenchable body of work

You drip
I hire you. No more sensations of 

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