This is the theme, or one of them, of Alison Bechdel’s rather astonishing new graphic memoir. And all the dichotomies, all the infernal dualities-mind/body, I/you, subject/object, wanting/getting-are finally, finally resolved.īut what if there were something we could do about them while we’re alive? What if through, say, very determined bicycling, or running up mountains, or doing push-ups on our knuckles, we could override ourselves? Forget ourselves, and so transcend these binaries that bedevil us? It swoops it stretches it delights it trails its wing tips in a dazzling, boundless sea. This article was published online on May 3, 2021.ĭ eath comes, and the soul, dragged blinking from its nest of nerves, perceives its dimensions for the first time.
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