/lit/ - Literature

I hope you all have a good day.

I'm raised in a culture where marriage is just what you do when you've been fucking for a while. I've become religious though, and from where I'm standing dating is maybe on the table but pre-marital sex definitely is not. At the same time "my" culture is the culture where you fuck first. Been thinking about what the expectations would be on me as a husband and father and on what demands to put on a wife and why. What questions to ask. If I will be questioned and for what. What I think is realistic to apply of the old law and what I think isn't. What she expects in terms of all of that. Been thinking about marriage I guess.

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I had a pretty cool moment with my mom. maybe I'm a fucking idiot for not realizing sooner, but she majored in art history and became an architect. she put me onto a guy called ivan agueli, who is a pretty interesting character. painter, sufi, swede. maybe in that order. from the 19th century. I read a book about the guy and he spoke of art exactly like this: that art is about realizing the ideal forms that are there, then realizing what these are objectively and subjectively in you, then isolating that subjective element, and then enhancing it. This is what makes it art, rather than just post-card art. This is how art tells a story, by being a personal slant on the present ideational.. reality or what you want to call it. I thought it was great. Went to mom to talk abou it, thinking I was gonna teach her something about platonic history and she gave me a look like all of this has been obvious to her for the last 30 years at least, but like she was very glad she could share it with me. That was cool.