Well, your perfect erotic object remains only in recognition memory); and his absolute absence from reconstruction memory becomes the yearning that is, finally, desire. That socially surrounded absence, when youre young, masks a lot of things in the real world; when youre older and a few thousand sexual encounters have begun to clear what desire is about (or perhaps what really lies about desire) and you have begun to perceive desires edges, its effect is not so much that of an obliterator any more as it is that of a distorting lens. If you can smile at what you see through, its sometimes illuminating.
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