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Wayne Koestenbaum

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    Wayne Koestenbaum

    How frequently do you look in the mirror? Does your face please you? Are you disgusted to detect familial features? Do you worship or hate your ancestors? Do you consider your image erotic? Do you pretend that you are a star's child? If you squint, does your reflection become abstract? Is abstraction a transcendental escape from identity or a psychotic spasm of depersonalization?

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    Wayne Koestenbaum

    I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world—most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence.

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    Wayne Koestenbaum

    I seek for myself the immunity of the diplomatic pouch.

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    Wayne Koestenbaum

    Prose divides shame into stations.

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    Wayne Koestenbaum

    Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!