tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post8187783286269861257..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: solitude and the washerwomanRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-889091220434909912009-08-19T06:40:54.413+02:002009-08-19T06:40:54.413+02:00Amie, I've written half a post this afternoon ...Amie, I've written half a post this afternoon that I hope opens up some of those questions. The voice of the commissar - even though there is an ugly history there - begins with a truth - those humid rags, those long days, those meals, those bloated legs, often in water half the day, that bending. It is partly because of washerwomen that I cannot, and will not, write a total history, a history of happiness as the advent of something bad, even if my plea is against the total social fact and its incoherences and reaching into a thousand, a million routines.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-2258341110464252362009-08-19T04:02:45.727+02:002009-08-19T04:02:45.727+02:00LI, this fascinating post has me thinking of what ...LI, this fascinating post has me thinking of what exactly the washerwomen clean, even if of course it seems pretty obvious - they clean clothes, garments, remove the dirt, the stains, the traces...but is the obvious ever that obvious when it is a matter of washing off and away traces, etc.?<br />What is the place of washerwomen in the history of the propre, a proper history? ( Propre also means clean, as you know.) A clean history, history washed clean. A history for which clean/unclean matters, it might even be in no little part the history of such. <br /><br />Why do the washerwomen have an erotic charge in this history, they clean but are they unclean? Something of blood, something of a rhythm that might just be an other history that opens up? <br /><br />Traces of an other history that History will clean up? <br /><br />AmieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-52316282622961205672009-08-18T06:33:04.704+02:002009-08-18T06:33:04.704+02:00the pea is very satisfying. is the fairy pea helpi...the pea is very satisfying. is the fairy pea helping with your edits?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.usm.edu/pr/oolamain.htm" rel="nofollow">Oseola McCarty, A Very Special Lady</a><br /><br />why are you talking about washerwomen?northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-28881662073991620032009-08-18T05:39:57.217+02:002009-08-18T05:39:57.217+02:00or if that doesn't satisfy you - between edits...or if that doesn't satisfy you - between edits, I've been looking up stuff about washer women. Laundresses. The ironers among us.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-60778696910818776982009-08-18T05:31:14.219+02:002009-08-18T05:31:14.219+02:00In my whole life? North, asking the big questions ...In my whole life? North, asking the big questions tonight!<br />I have been snugly wrapped in the peashell of my peabrain, upon a peasea in a peaboat.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-15187959109922113832009-08-18T04:42:41.982+02:002009-08-18T04:42:41.982+02:00where have you been?where have you been?northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.com