A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Author:Billy-Ray Belcourt [Belcourt, Billy-Ray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2022-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE

Art

I’d been in the bathtub for almost an hour, but the smell of sex and displaced yearning still hung in the air. Flowing through me were the shockwaves of intercourse: the euphoria of surrender, the catatonia of regret. An incitement to abstract thought as powerful as any.

I was reading Água Viva, and in it Clarice Lispector wrote: “Writing is the method of using the word as bait.” If nothing else, I thought, art could usher in a brief trace of another kind of embodiment, another experience of having a body that wasn’t already absorbed into the misery machine called life under white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. At the very least, it could do what sex did for me, give access to what Lispector called “whatever is not word,” what I believed to be another way of saying “the opposite of the present.”

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