Crinoline
Slavoj Zizek recommended three authors as true poets during his 2016 seminar at the European Graduate School: Andrei Platonov, Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett (who bettered his master James Joyce’s attempts). There was a fourth whom I could not fully make out but deduced to be Italo Svevo (Aaron Hector Schmitz) because his Zeno’s Conscience revolves around psychoanalysis. I was finally convinced of my deduction by a quote on page 435 that Zizek seems to have plundered for his Mary Magdalene vagina/Jesus joke : “Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn’t tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies, believing them wounds. We would die of strangulation the moment we were treated.” Jim Harrison claimed plundering your fellow scribe was par for the course. But that’s not what I wanted to write about, rather what triggered the thought process that eventually led back to Zizek, Zeno’s trigger word: “crinoline,” by which he meant a skir