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"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."

4.

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

5. 

It's 1941, it's 1944
I'm on the train

I'm on my period

I'm on the floor. 

6.

I'm in Dimes Square. I'm in Bergen-Belsen.
No more application destroy all applications appliances run-ins and buttressed moments

I want ed you to know that you 

Need to stop looking at me.

I you fuck. Stop playing all the songs I was programmed to love

Don't take photos of things

Sty medication dipping down your sweat-soaked shoulders 

Your drenchable body of work

You drip

I hire you. No more sensations of