For some reason I am buying sheet sets from Ross late at night. The store is closed and all the lights are off, but an old manager with white hair is making me fill out a lot of forms to “make” that day’s inventory before I can pay for my sheets and leave.
When I get home, I see that my tutor is already there. I know that he is a psychokiller, and at the slightest provocation he will go crazy and attack everybody in my family, so I hide a paring knife underneath my notebook and approach him carefully. I’m posed to pare his heart out before he can make a move.
He tells me that I should take all of my clothes off item by item as a demonstration of deconstruction and that he would grade me on this assignment. I argue with him that he’s wrong, that when Barthes talked about the striptease, he was not talking about anything like this.
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"Woman is desexualized at the very moment when she is stripped naked." (Roland Barthes, Mythologies)
ReplyDeleteI have the eerie feeling that the tutor is the perverted painter.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember, could be.
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