In The Chronicles of Amber, characters eat, drink, sleep, and sex more narratively thank is typical in other epic fantasies I know (perhaps the Gunslinger is an exception to this this).
Gets me thinking about our own SFSE project - I think the intro, and part of the goal will be to outline be challenge in coupling (and ultimately procreating), where your natural inclinations (I'm hungry now, tired now, etc.) get alters and affected by the needs of others.
We label this civilization, and my writing this would cause my partner to lambast the "selfish male tendencies in me". I think, thought, that this is just another, subtler manifestation of Social Taylorism, and why hetero-normative coupling is good for capitalism and systems of control.
The fantasy novel that depicts a hero wandering (alone or together), and eating when he/she is hungry, sleeping, etc. is a challeng e to this (but an escapist one)
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February 2020
So, firstly, it seems clear that I was drunk while writing this... But it still seems to make good sense to me, and I like it.
Shitting, Fucking, Sleeping, Eating (SFSE) is a book project i have proposed over the course of the past decade (several years still before this post). I haven't worked on it enough, and felt it was a project that should be co-written by a large team. It's a book about intimate living (in fact, i thought the title might be SFSE: A Guide to Intimate Living). An advice book that ideally the wacky aunt would give to newlyweds, i imagined a PR blitz - moral outrage, anger at swears and a complication of what we think of as a "standard" life.
Unfortunately, our current era has become too profane, too crass, for this book to make a dent. We are living in the obscenity not only of the Trump era, but the obscenity of massive wealth and middle class decimation. But maybe - there is still something to be said for finding better and better ways to coexist, both in our individual homes and in the larger world...
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February 2020
So, firstly, it seems clear that I was drunk while writing this... But it still seems to make good sense to me, and I like it.
Shitting, Fucking, Sleeping, Eating (SFSE) is a book project i have proposed over the course of the past decade (several years still before this post). I haven't worked on it enough, and felt it was a project that should be co-written by a large team. It's a book about intimate living (in fact, i thought the title might be SFSE: A Guide to Intimate Living). An advice book that ideally the wacky aunt would give to newlyweds, i imagined a PR blitz - moral outrage, anger at swears and a complication of what we think of as a "standard" life.
Unfortunately, our current era has become too profane, too crass, for this book to make a dent. We are living in the obscenity not only of the Trump era, but the obscenity of massive wealth and middle class decimation. But maybe - there is still something to be said for finding better and better ways to coexist, both in our individual homes and in the larger world...
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