Hans Balmes
@hans596.bsky.social
Editor, translator, folding canoe enthusiast
"...and the touch between these two surfaces confirms your own body’s memory of touching that other body all night long. This is what I mean by the touch on the inside, it is something like what a hand feels inside a glove."
From a manuscript found on John Berger's desk
5/5
From a manuscript found on John Berger's desk
5/5
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"...and the touch between these two surfaces confirms your own body’s memory of touching that other body all night long. This is what I mean by the touch on the inside, it is something like what a hand feels inside a glove."
From a manuscript found on John Berger's desk
5/5
From a manuscript found on John Berger's desk
5/5
"Yet in this there is a sweet, mysterious, covert pleasure because you watch the now pulled-on clothes being moulded by the body, you watch the substance of the limbs or torso or hips pressing against their covering, against their dress,..."
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4/5
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Yet in this there is a sweet, mysterious, covert pleasure because you watch the now pulled-on clothes being moulded by the body, you watch the substance of the limbs or torso or hips pressing against their covering, against their dress,..."
4/5
4/5
"The opposite of pulling off each other’s clothes and throwing them on the floor. The opposite of disclosure. The opposite of at last arriving - every time as if it was the firstl The opposite. You lie there and you watch the body you love being covered, being hidden again."
3/5
3/5
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"The opposite of pulling off each other’s clothes and throwing them on the floor. The opposite of disclosure. The opposite of at last arriving - every time as if it was the firstl The opposite. You lie there and you watch the body you love being covered, being hidden again."
3/5
3/5