David Given Schwarm

Inline at the Lost Bean this morning the construction worker picking up $29.20 in coffee and frittata mentioned that the closing of Barnes & Noble had entered the final stage–the dumping of books. Reading on the value of honesty and absurdity had preceded this. I get in the car and drive off. Halfway down the…

Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk—real straight talk about souls, for life, is holy and every moment is precious.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender What are these primary dispositions on which Freud himself apparently founders? Excerpt From Butler, Judith. “Gender Trouble.” Routledge, 1990. Apple Books.This material may be protected by copyright. Freud founders vs Freud flounders.