Figure It Out by Wayne Koestenbaum

Author:Wayne Koestenbaum
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781593765965
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2020-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

(2015)

“MY” MASCULINITY REMIX

1.

In 1994, I wrote a short essay called “‘My’ Masculinity.” Twenty-two years later, I revoke my earlier version and start the composition all over again. (Consider the two essays mismatched nipples.) Did anyone own masculinity in 1994? Aren’t we finished with possessiveness—its sodden betrayals, its puerilities, its cuts?

2.

I only half-mean what I say; identity remains in the half-meaning, the ruse I fall into when I begin this odd dance called thinking. I don’t have an identity, only

a vast fatigue—

did I once call it

a vast summational

fatigue (but what

am I summoning

when I say “summational”)?

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