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Eileen Myles on Pathetic Literature

Apology

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The Appeal of Shitting

I think shitting is much more pathetic than say pissing for sure. How so? Well, it's like people don't, people sort of don't ever want to have shit. Shitting is very kind of private and weird and performative. It's up there with sex. I mean, also, but that's such a great pleasure in shitting in the woods. Right. And then I was thinking about the Bob Flanagan piece. For those that don’t know, Bob Flanagan was a writer and performance artist who dealt with SNM a lot in his work. The piece in the book is about him for as part of his practice, trying to eat his

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