A blue tailed coat, yellow waist-coat and trousers with high boots
What do you think of Werther? No matter what you think, by page’s end you will know him.
Pain
Poetry is a controlled refinement of sobbing
Do you cry? Or weep? Or sob?
If experience ruptures your philosophy of life let writing be your constant
What do you do when it hurts too much?
The energy of dislike
Write what is forbidden and set yourself free.
Epistemological concussion and masochism
Can knowledge and experience ever reflect each other?
Why did we hurt sadism?
What must phenomenology do to be able to see past difficult cultural frameworks to the experience of things themselves?
Is pain a pleasure through ‘some strange alchemy’?
To write a defence of masochism is a brave and difficult task. Weak claims about pain and pleasure undermine the effort.
