How very intimate the bodily sense is can be seen by performing a little experiment in your imagination. Think first of swallowing the saliva in your mouth, or do so. Then imagine expectorating it into a tumbler and drinking it! What seemed natural and ‘mine’ suddenly becomes disgusting and alien. Or picture yourself sucking blood from a prick in your finger; then imagine sucking blood from a bandage around your finger! What I perceive as belonging intimately to my body is warm and welcome; what I perceive as separate from my body becomes, in the twinkling of an eye, cold and foreign.
– Gordon W. Allpor
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November 27, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Zaak Ché Robichaud
Running your fingers through your wife’s hair as opposed to pulling it out of a comb or from a bathtub drain.
November 29, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Remy
I quiver at the thought of brushing my hair with a brush clogged with the stuff.