I guess I'm not really that into the whole bondage sex thing. (Sorry ladies, now the truth comes out.)
When I read this I thought about how much and when we exercise executive control and when we bend to something else. Surely everyone has an outlet, a time or circumstance when they adopt a receptive mode instead. I've heard novelists describe how certain passages happen when they stop trying to figure out what they need to have characters say and simply record the dialogue they 'hear'. Surely something like that applies in any creative endeavor.
Something else I think about in connection to this is the idea of being free to choose what you like .. but not what it is you are disposed to like. At some point you don't .. can't .. choose everything. At some point you trust something and if that's nothing but what you can prove, that is one kind of defect. Taking no control over your life -giving it all over to 'god' or whatever- that would be another kind of defect.
When I read this I thought about how much and when we exercise executive control and when we bend to something else. Surely everyone has an outlet, a time or circumstance when they adopt a receptive mode instead. I've heard novelists describe how certain passages happen when they stop trying to figure out what they need to have characters say and simply record the dialogue they 'hear'. Surely something like that applies in any creative endeavor.
Something else I think about in connection to this is the idea of being free to choose what you like .. but not what it is you are disposed to like. At some point you don't .. can't .. choose everything. At some point you trust something and if that's nothing but what you can prove, that is one kind of defect. Taking no control over your life -giving it all over to 'god' or whatever- that would be another kind of defect.
