#katherine dunn

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[elfminstersfromagerie]

[bodyalive]

Katherine Dunham. all praises.

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The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

- Isadora Duncan

[yesgabsstuff]

Do you think Katherine Dunn knows that losers (me) are making normie pop diva playlists for Artie?

[hedestroyedherimage]

thinking about Geek Love by Katherine Dunn...... Arty was a thalidomide child right? the symptoms line up, the line about the twins being proper freaks but him an 'industrial accident'... and I guess the timeline mostly matches up with the scandal. maybe I'm crazy but I also think I'm so right. and that would explain why he feels SO inferior because there's millions of kids just like him, he just happened to be born into the right family

[cupofmeat]

[biblioklept]

Mid-August riff; some books acquired, etc.

The last two weeks flew by. My kids went back to school this week; they are attending the same school for the first time since elementary school, my own dear mother, that school, and I am relieved, if only temporarily from driving duties. We are making pizzas in an hour or two to celebrate the first Friday of their school year (we make pizzas every Friday as a nifty fridge clearing activity, but…

[maryacore]

Thinking about how, in ‘Geek Love’, Olympia’s entire life past-tragedy was permeated with Arturo. She saw him in Miranda, with her repeatedly reiterating how she looked so much like him it made her alert to her every move just like she was while with him. She saw him in Mary Lick with her practice of mutilating people to set them free and the way that in the end she genuinely loved her as a friend despite hating her. In Miranda’s tail dilemma, there was truly no way for Olympia to win: had Miranda not followed through with the operation, she would be forced to have a relationship with a live embodiment of the place Arturo used to hold in her life and would never know a day of peace again — and had she gone under the knife, Olympia would be stuck living with an all-consuming guilt that by letting her do this, she let her family down and betrayed the ideals that Arturo instilled in her. And this is what makes her character so tragic, because really it wouldn’t take a lot for her to leave the past in the past and start a completely new life, but due to all the ways she was messed up by her upbringing she just couldn’t fathom it. And so she kept holding on to her family as it was poisoning her life — “I cannot run from my family” — and she didn’t register as she turned into Arturo herself, bitter and desperate to keep Miranda to rot in the remains of this legacy along with her, still deluding herself that by being a freak, she was superior to others — “becoming the dragon”. And the only way for her to truly escape all that was to die. Katherine Dunn the woman that you are

[bubervitch]

unfortunately i do agree with johnny depp that 20 years ago he would have slayed as arturo binewski 😔 i just know a tim burton Geek Love would have been one of the best movies of its time

[therefugeofbooks]

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

[quotestomorals]

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

[sharry-arry-odd]

"So, let's get the truth here! You don't want to stop eating! You love to eat! You don't want to be thin! You don't want to be beautiful! You don't want people to love you! All you really want is to know that you're all right! That's what can give you peace! "If I had arms and legs and hair like everybody else, do you think I'd be happy? NO! I would not! Because then I'd worry did somebody love me! I'd have to look outside myself to find out what to think of myself! "And you! You aren't ever going to look like a fashion queen! Does that mean you have to be miserable all your life? Does it? "Can you be happy with the movies and the ads and the clothes in the stores and the doctors and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You can't. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. . . ."

Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn

[intotheclash]

Molte volte sono stata in lutto per me stessa. Mi sono crogiolata nel dolore per la solitaria, cauta infiltrazione del mio amore nell'aria come la puzza di popcorn avanzati che diventavano verdi, stantii e gommosi. Alla fine mi riprendevo sempre provando un senso di gloria, la certezza che amare significava essere forti. Essere l'oggetto dell'amore di qualcuno è ben poca cosa. A che serve amare in cambio di amore? mi chiedevo. A scaldarmi la spina dorsale nell'oscurità? A cambiare il viso che vedo allo specchio ogni mattina? Il mio amore per Arty non era affar suo. Era il mio tesoro segreto, come un passero azzurro tatuato sotto i peli pubici o un rubino infilato su per il culo.

Katherine Dunn - Carnival Love

[alexanderpearce]

geek love movie with mia goth in a cameo role as one of the redheads

[ichangeintothemule]

[repunk76]

Great book!