Silna Enthusiast

"Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious." ― Michel de Montaigne

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meanwhile, command is at liberty to meet when they please, in the open or for elaborate, exclusive dinners, without rushing to get back to work. and it's not solely a sexuality taboo; it's a matter of class and rank. a core tool of industrial capitalism is its chokehold on time and a lack of autonomy in organising it. where time is money, time spent on personal matters is money wasted — anything else is a privilege.

so they keep stealing time, in moments that only ever feel transitory. and by the point where they no longer need to, there's no time left to steal anyway.