Self-critique of this blog:
The character Dopamine Junkie, while displaying human frailty, inconsistency and desire, still lacks a certain depth.
The reader understands that she is a sexually aware and yet repressed young woman in a long term relationship with a man she loves for reasons other than sex.
Madame Bovary?
Anais Nin?
Edna Pontellier? "I'm jealous of your thoughts tonight. They're making you a little kinder than usual; but some way I feel as if they were wandering, as if they were not here with me." She only looked at him and smiled. His eyes were very near. He leaned upon the lounge with an arm extended across her, while the other hand still rested upon her hair. They continued silently to look into each other's eyes. When he leaned forward and kissed her, she clasped his head, holding his lips to hers.
It was the first kiss of her life to which her nature had really responded. It was a flaming torch that kindled desire.
- Kate Chopin, the Awakening
DJ: Sex is easy. Pleasure is hard. Ultimate satisfaction takes dedication, determination and courage.
Critic: DJ is clearly a slave in search of a Master, a Master looking to apprentice, and a slave to Passion overall.
Her struggle with her inner yearnings are palpable, and the middle class sexual mores with which she was raised are clearly the invisible bars which keep her caged, even while she stuggles with Love as an opiate to keep her unfed carnal animal sedated. She "paints herself into a corner", and locks herself away inside a box "papered with desires". She is aware of her ability to suppress, to repress. And she is aware that doing this to herself is exhausting, and that her "rescue squads is exhausted" as Bjork would say.
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is
necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!
How many souls perish in its tumult!
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering,
clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in
abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward
contemplation.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea
is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
- more Kate Chopin, the Awakening
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Spend most of the weekend in bed, sleeping, reading and writing.
Thus the literary mood. The foghorns and the crashing of the waves lulled me into a lackadaisical suspension.
I was feeling a little depressed this weekend. More melancholy I suppose. The weather creeps into my mood.
I went through a period of depression that lasted a few months and wrecked an entire quarter of college for me.
Thus the dopamine junkie. Meds helped.
I spent a lot of that time in a catatonic state, crying all the time, ceaselessly, for no reason in particular.
My young and tender and loving boy did not know what to do with me.
He would listen and wait patiently at my side, waiting for the tears to ebb.
And so it developed that he would hold me to comfort me, cradling me in his arms, on his lap.
And the sensation of my small warm weeping body would stir him.
He would nuzzle my neck, my ear.
Licking my tears away.
In my catatonic state, I would find solace in the distraction his seduction provided.
Sex is the antidote to death, the affirmation of life.
Slowly, as I sobbed and hiccuped, he would undress himself, he would undress me.
And each kiss he gave me melted me a little more.
And every shudder he drew out of me shook me a little more out of the daze.
And the warmth would spread over me, the blood coursing through me hot, again and again, he would
coax me out, at least the me who was flooding his relentless tongue.
He wasn't satisfied until I was shaking in his arms.
And when the sobs turned to moans, he penetrated me.
Watching the tears dry and my eyes refocus as he stroked me.
Fucking me back to life.