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Wednesday, Sept. 04, 2002 / 11:41 a.m. ~Intellectual Me~ I�ve been sitting in my cube, listening to Miles Davis� �Sketches of Spain�, reading about Andrea Dworkin and the penis as �battering ram�. God, am I incredibly intellectual or what?! Or what. I�m seeing her point. I really am. Then again, I love the way David M Friedman is presenting all sides in this book. Once again, that would be A Mind of Its Own � A Cultural History of the Penis. Yes, I�m still reading it. It requires great concentration on my part, the reading, most especially the chapters involving Christianity and Freud. And then again, I don�t read at home. I always intend to, but it never happens. Here are the names of the Chapters in this book: I The Demon Rod II The Gear Shift III The Measuring Stick IV The Cigar V The Battering Ram VI The Punctureproof Balloon Clever, eh? Clever and appropriate. This book is a bit consuming. Or perhaps it�s just me, the way I throw myself into things, so passionate about this or that, even what appear to be little things, like a TV show, or a musician�s life and work, or anything really. When I�m interested, captivated, passionate, I am ALL over it. Plus, I�ve always loved psychology and anthropology, and this book, the �penis book� is filled with both. It�s one of those books I feel like savoring. Reading and reading, never really finishing. Another slow day at work. I think my phone went about 15 minutes straight without ringing. Nice. If you�re in the mood to read, if you�re not� tough shit. It�s fucking slow. Tell you what though, when I do finish this book I am going to read something totally different, I�m thinking I might read A Cook�s Tour, by Anthony Bourdain (mmmmm� Tony�). Dang if I don�t have the nasty PMS symptoms, the suppressed immunity, the little fever, little soreness in throat, the achy body, the swelling, etc. and ho hum too. Thinking about this evening, what�s for dinner, what will show up on the �Big Brother 3� broadcast, will the free weekly be out at the liquor store when I go home for lunch, etc. Semi-bored, but willing to replace headphones, willing to read more about men and their penises. The more I read the more I am glad to be a woman, the more I am glad not to be involved with any penis in particular at this time. Here are some quotes attributed to Dworkin, from the book: From Intercourse - �[The erect penis causes] a literal erosion of the [female] body�s integrity� Her insides are worn away over time, and she, possessed, becomes weak, depleted, usurped in all her physical and mental energies� until it ends in death.� Wow, huh? I never quite thought of it like that. I seem to remember enjoying intercourse, even hard, depending on penis size of course. Size does matter. Too big is too fucking big, and too small� well� is too small. This, too, is from the same book by Dworkin: �� [In] real life� men use the penis to deliver death to women� The women are raped as adults or as children; prostituted ; fucked, then murdered; murdered, then fucked.� It�s severe, granted - that was her real life comparison to pornography, to which she was VEHEMENTLY opposed. But, hey, I don�t know. It is an invasion, by the very nature of our biology. I don�t know that I�ll be reading her books, or Susan Brownmiller or even the anti-feminist, Camille Paglia (though I own Sexual Personae). This is why I say that when I finish this I am switching subjects altogether. Every chapter, every few pages I close the book (usually because the phone rings) and I exhale, �Whew!� I�m getting back to it now. Believe it or not, it�s only 10:38 a.m. as I finish this up. We�ve got a LONG way to go today� Cost of the War in Iraq
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