As I was writing these pieces, and the pile of them grew, the inward, the outward, the mix between, I recognized I was writing about age an awful lot—the long look back, the shorter look forward—and that the only thing that gave me the courage to actually consider putting all this “I” out in the world was the inevitable end to the story. [...] Maybe that’s what my mother felt, and the hanger and the shoe in the suitcase and the following around of the cat with the tin of food were all part of her trying to make the walls bigger, trying to make sense of them. [...] She can at last transcend the body that was what other people principally valued her for and be set free both from their expectations and her own capitulation to them.” —Germaine Greer, The Change Last summer I was sitting in a wicker chair on the screened-in porch of a rented cottage listening to the creek next to me and watching a wasp bump against the glass of the door. [...] The day before, as the sun was setting and I watched through the small frame of the kitchen window, the light had caught them so they looked like snowflakes against the green lawn and the wood behind it, as if someone had made a snow globe and set it with grass and trees. [...] Even more strikingly, Steinem describes material she discovered in the Library of Congress that says the basic layout of the Christian church is modelled on the interior of a woman’s body: the outer doors represent the labia majora, the inner doors the labia minora, the aisle the vagina and the altar the womb.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- CONTENTS 8
- Preface 10
- Acknowledgements 12
- THRESHOLDS 14
- The Man Who Met Sontag 16
- Threshold 19
- The Goddess of Light & Dark 29
- Hum 39
- The Story Between Us 47
- Shape 61
- SEMANTICS 64
- Cave 66
- Ghosts 70
- A Leap and a Blessing 82
- Lurching Man 86
- Natty Man 90
- Praying Women 92
- Semantics 97
- The Inner Weed 102
- Ducks 107
- GRACES 110
- Mimesis 112
- The Plot of a Life 117
- Apples 121
- Fish 124
- Remains 130
- Leah 131
- Thereness 136
- Birds 140
- Methuselah 145
- RECEPTORS 154
- Retro Tent 156
- Bear Sightings 159
- Lanyard 164
- Twin Set 168
- Ankles 171
- Trust 175
- Everything Rustles 183
- About the Author 193
