Desire tags: candle
By Nachiket Joshi What happens when intimacy runs afoul of the desiring self? An astonishing question, almost paradoxical. Desire’s main motive is to reduce distance, to propagate the self towards the other, to bring the other within its grasp. A fluid projection, desire ripples out into the air in circles that collapse on touching the ground. But the shores on which it alights, aren’t always the ones it set out for. Sometimes, they have the cursory feel of a stopover in an exotic locale, like tra…