Tonight I killed two little round cockroaches. One I drowned in the sink, the other I crushed on the wall with my diary. It left a lot of slime on my diary. I also squashed two tiny baby cockroaches.
Some of you make fun of my discussion of pee, but doesn't everyone have this problem? I know I pee more than anyone else but everyone has to pee. What do you do when you find yourself in an unfamiliar place where nothing looks recognisable and you really have to pee? So, yes, this blog is mostly about food and pee. A few people I studied with were working on theses about the body, more specifically, the neglect of it in philosophy. One co-worker was using the body in a Marxist framework, discussing how contemporary expectations of workers view people as if they are only minds and not bodies. These ignored bodies complicate the simplistic model of the mind-only worker and citizen and her relation to work and civility.
So, yes, pee isn't something we are supposed to talk about in politics, society, but is one of the few universal aspects of our experience in the world. Such experience has added tensions when travelling.
Okay, off to bed. I have to get up at 5.30am to catch a ferry.
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Yes, if only more people could discuss pee within a Marxist framework we wouldn't have to get so embarrassed when travelling :) Love it, please don't stop peeing just to please your audience
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Your pee references remind me of Patti Smith. She has made several pee references in her songs over the years. Very punk rock.
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