C also notices that N (who is J’s lover) is sitting at the table eating.
C notes a smell that has a deep and foul base note. C notices steam flowing upward from the pan towards the ceiling. J’s housemate, C, has just woken and enters the kitchen. I ape their method because it is a faster way to sketch the breakdown of relations in an early 90’s rental apartment in Boston:
It dithers this way because their work meanders between making traumatic records, spelunking in the unconscious, and directing the patient through a labyrinth of ranked governance. More specifically, why not siphon their professional form of note-taking-one that dithers between stage direction and poem and police incident report. Let’s channel twentieth-century psychoanalysts. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Club Foot flyer, 1986. Aaron Cometbus Punk and Underground Press Collection, #8107.