The line on my left inner knee from a swimming fin buckle that jabbed me in the fortunately sharkless waters of Long Island Sound. And my favorite, until now, my ankle scar covering the titanium screws and plate that reunited the shattered pieces of my fibula. My skin. It may seem ironi...
Three blocks up Leavenworth to headquarters. It was the usual bric-a-brac on the sidewalk, ranging from Paw Patrol coloring books to pornographic Betamax tapes. Among the larger items for sale was a portable Brother word processor, complete with a narrow liquid crystal screen reminiscent of the ...
In the resulting scuffle, “I jabbed with a spear at their feet, cutting one severely.” A melee broke out inside the house. “There were not so many of us as of the Mangbettus, but we were on our own soil and they were the invaders. I have a badly swelled hand, for Negro ...
What fun we have spinning our threads, these “silkworms of our own” (Mr. Derrida again, reminding us that, whatever we intend to reveal, we cannot avoid being untranslatable singular-universals). At times the threads have frayed; we’ve jabbed into each other; gotten too close and had ...
On 29 July I welcomed our second little cherub into the world – a boy named Hugo (or Hugh/Hughie/Night Owl as we like to call him). After a very difficult pregnancy with crippling pelvic instability, I was overjoyed when the anaesthetist jabbed my spine and Hugo popped out of the sunro...
Now transfer this predictive learning to hearing a beep from a shock collar, or a “shzt shzt” that precedes a neck jab, now seeing a passing person predicts being choked, jabbed, shocked etc... These bits of stimuli such as people or dogs etc…now predict fear and pain and now that...