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Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Goines On: La petite mort

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Les Ballets de Monte Carlo,
Jean-Christophe Maillot
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Often, when Goines felt death near, he thought of the French phrase “la petite mort” – literally the little death – closely associated with the ecstatic few moments of sexual orgasm. But those moments preceded the death referred to – the brief lapse into unconsciousness that can follow orgasm. Those moments felt nothing like the...nothingness that Goines expected of death. Those moments were the opposite of death – they were longings to live, to thrust forward, to go on and on and on.
    But wasn’t that why Mother Nature endowed orgasm with such an exaltation of feeling, precisely to urge her creatures to keep on mating, procreating, and going on? Goines’ death would be little compared to potential generations to come....


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Posted by Moristotle at 5/02/2023 03:00:00 AM
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2 comments:

  1. Michael H. BrownsteinThursday, May 4, 2023 at 5:11:00 PM EDT

    Ahhh! Ambition to continue and keep on continuing as if we can be like the mulberry tree planning it's invasion

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  2. Pat HamiltonFriday, May 5, 2023 at 12:29:00 PM EDT

    Thank you for this timely, concise celebration of the male contribution to the propagation of people, and we look forward to what Goines will write about the many mysteries surrounding the climaxes of women.

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