I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? Kathy Acker More Quotes by Kathy Acker More Quotes From Kathy Acker And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. Kathy Acker language expectations trying Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me. Kathy Acker language LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world. Kathy Acker males goal world You know I've had work banned. Kathy Acker banned corny knows We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. Kathy Acker bandwagon censorship way It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together. Kathy Acker our-world together bird The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility. Kathy Acker pride humility practice Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy. Kathy Acker powerful dog believe I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever. Kathy Acker hurt people thinking Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating. Kathy Acker energy yogi stuff I'm what happens after death, which is writing. Kathy Acker after-death happens writing I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body. Kathy Acker pirate treasure dream After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other Kathy Acker choices gathering heaven i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed. Kathy Acker disaster limitless natural Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum. Kathy Acker berlin bigs sailor Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. Kathy Acker left-wing right-wing wings Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive. Kathy Acker homophobia wells I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. Kathy Acker female body half I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. Kathy Acker hygiene mean people But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. Kathy Acker supportive guy men
