Resistance to high vulgarity often ascribes infantilism, insanity or immoral nihilism to texts whose playfulness dismays the authoritarianism of unacknowledged legislators. The regularity with which the pleasures of paronamasia are condemned as 'low' or 'unearned' provides one measure of the puritanical work ethic implicit in much critical accountancy. The awkwardness of sexuality provides another. Questions emerge, then, regarding resistances to erotic poetics from different positions and the lack of consensus around what used to be called polymorphic perversity. Readers might be forgiven for wondering how far they are invited to take up such subject positions or invited to watch.
Few indications support anything so gauche as a 'first person' voice or experience.
The sense that this is a performance for textual voyeurs is supported by gestures towards an emerging dramatic scenario. But the writing never quite loses its formalist dignity to the extent of becoming a naturalist theatre. This tour de force performs its variations as if to suggest the plenitude from which the rest of the book's more singular moments of text were selected. A note in the colophon material states that this comes from a collaborative text-sound installation. Performative potential is evident.