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Peter White - Turn It Out
violet-psychofluid asked:
You’re welcome sweetums. I love creative, communal atmospheres. Lots of seeds. Lots of gardening. Lots of growth. Lots of beauty. So many different crops. :)
“For even as love crowns you, so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth, so is he for your pruning.”
— KAHLIL GIBRAN
“…the dominant sentiments in these individuals are impatience and frustration whenever the objects of their desire are not immediately available. They become restless and discontent, quarrelsome and irritable, as though something of vital importance were slipping through their fingers. And in fact, in their eyes, succeeding in seducing - that is, conquering and subjugating - the other, represents confirmation of their value, a proof that they exist. I seduce, therefore I am. Their self-esteem is so fragile that a rejection can even cause - as I have personally had occasion to observe - acute psychosomatic reactions. The other who does not yield kindles painful sensations of insignificance, worthlessness, and loss of identity, because he has the power to confirm or nullify identity. But fortunately, for them, the personality of this kind of individual succeeds in reducing to the minimum the risk of such traumatic experiences, simply by refusing a priori to attribute to the other an individuality, a peculiarity, a “uniqueness” that could render their response - be it positive or negative - significant.”
– Aldo Carotenuto, Rites and Myths of Seduction
“Don Juan is a very particular type of vanquisher: insatiable, he could be described as suffering from erotic bulimia. More than gluttonous, he is voracious; what matter to him are numbers. But even more, he needs to catalogue, list his victims. In the ‘Don Giovanni Tenorio’ of Zorilla, Don Juan and Don Luigi enumerate the women they have seduced, and the men they have murdered. In the libretto of Mozart’s opera, once more this particular need to enumerate emerges, and the aria in which the cataloging occurs is more than an inventory; it is an arid auditor’s account.”
– Aldo Carotenuto, Rites and Myths of Seduction
“Contrary to the common belief that the seducer is utterly without discrimination, his prey must, in fact, always possess one fundamental characteristic – that psychological vulnerability born of insecurity and low self-esteem or, in other words, someone who has not yet come to terms with her deepest femininity. He therefore seeks the encounter exclusively in the interests of conquest: his seduction is not a prelude to love and recognition of the other.”
– Aldo Carotenuto, Rites and Myths of Seduction
he is full of self-love and likes to believe he affects me profoundly; I encourage his arrogance, because I’m a good girl; a very good girl; imagining him basking in his own self-inflation gets me hot; I adore his superior gaze, his ruthless judgement; I’ll allow it for a while longer, until I get bored; because I’m a very good girl.
“That’s the paradox of loss: How can something that’s gone weigh us down so much?”
— Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
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