2. There's a mind game where you run your finger along your inner arm and try to clearly distinguish between what you're feeling with your finger and what you're feeling on your arm.
The trick that becomes more complicated when you bring in another person... how much of you touching another is about you projecting the feeling of yourself being touched? Where does the physical feeling of an embrace begin and end?
3. Harold Brodkey: I wrote this quote in my notebook when reading First Loves...
"we are so entangled with each other that it is impossible to tell whose wish precedes which act or whose applause rewards what performance." - Harold Brodkey, p. 301
I've played that arm game many a time! I'm particularly good at getting the other person to say "now!" when I'm still inches away from their inner elbow. Not sure what this says about my arts of deception.
ReplyDeleteHa!
DeleteI've never played that game, or seen that painting, or read those words, but now I don't think I'll forget them.
ReplyDeleteI love how you bring things together here.
Thanks Katie - appreciate that!
DeleteLove this image and followed the link to the other beautiful images. Great game -- never heard of it before. Your posts cheer me up considerably!
ReplyDeleteAwh - that's nice to hear. Thanks Lucy.
DeleteI love this three things! I love how you make these connections. And that quote really speaks to me now :) Thank you again!
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