a private grammar of appetite

a study of the interval between wanting and being understood for the reader who knows the difference

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[sense-of-sight-original]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Her dreams are insatiable, excessive, unknown;”

— Alexander Blok, tr. by Boris Jakim, from Poems of Sophia; “It Is Dark In The Rooms and Stifling,”

[frachella]

[alephskoteinos]

The moralist condemns the energy which he lacks.

- Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

[desire-vogue]

[amargedom]

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”

—

[madison--ava--jones]

[alephskoteinos]

In erotic excess we venerate the rule which we break. A series of rebounding oppositions lies at the basis of an instinct composed alternately of fidelity and revolt, which is the essence of man. Outside this series we are stifled by the logic of laws.

- Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

[tigerlilypurring]

[madison--ava--jones]

[tigerlilypurring]

[madison--ava--jones]

[madison--ava--jones]

“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”

-Anais Nin, Delta of Venus

[anlatfiruze]

[madison--ava--jones]

[madison--ava--jones]