HeyJaredPeculiar Prickles➰by LaVonne Chantal
LaVonne is a writer and a bartender of pizza. Akin to the unique flavor combinations on her pizzas, she uses mental processes in her writing like distinctive ingredients to think through the rupture and resonance between people.
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The Automaton: Non-Player Character of the Deleuzian Machine (opens the original)
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First some background. Jacques Lacan spent his last decades examining knots. He was looking for one that could hold the shape of a person, and he settled on the Borromean knot: three rings linked so that cutting any single one sets all three loose from each other. He called the rings the Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary, and used the whole knot to say what a person is and what holds them together.The Real is what a body carries before language gets hold of it, raw sensation, drive, whatever
Blue Line (opens the original)
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I married a man who used to be a goalie.Then, somewhere along the way, he became puck shy.So he became a defenceman.I suppose this should have been a warning.A goalie stands in front of what is coming. A defenceman learns to move it somewhere else. He protects the net, clears the danger, keeps himself between the puck and the place where it might do damage.I married him anyway.Or perhaps I married him because of it.There are men who chase the puck. Men who want to be where the action is, who thr
Too Smart for Your Own Good (opens the original)
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The man I married has more in common with Marx than I would prefer to admit. Some men work hard so that their wives do not have to. Others work as hard as their wives, or less. My husband is a third kind, the one who wants to find a way for neither of us to have to work at all. He likes the fast track: whatever offers to multiply capital without the years of ordinary labor that multiplication typically requires. Marx had a shorthand for this kind of movement: money that becomes more money withou
Interval Four: Phantasm (opens the original)
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The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan suggested that three dimensions of experience hold each of us together. Picture three overlapping circles, like a Venn diagram.The first circle is the Real: everything that exists before we have words for it. The body, mortality, pain, joy, all the parts of life that resist explanation.The second is the Symbolic: language, culture, family stories, the meanings we inherit. The world of words and the invisible rules that organize our lives.The third is the Im
The Prince and his Sphinx (opens the original)
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For decades, the house had been mine. My scent had woven itself into the carpet. My claws had marked the corners of the couch. The humans belonged to me. They knew the rules: soft voices, regular meals, and the courtesy of tuna once a week. I lived like a prince.Then they brought him home, the interloper.A common barn cat, striped black and grey. He had entered the house with a cautious swagger. And when he looked around, he did not turn his head, only his eyes moved, sliding from side to side.
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