things I love, not people—too obvious

1. Mario Levrero
2. Bodhi Linux
3. while we’re on the subject of books (Levrero), Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation . . .

hang on, why “too obvious”?

1. because you can tell it from the outside
2. see? from the bodies mine is in proximity to,
3. how close I am . . . however,

1. things are more difficult,
2. things have to be divulged
3. or confessed or
4. as we put it now, shared.

And yet, we still might ask about the affinity of things and bodies and different kinds of love,

1. visible
2. invisible
3. and then, can we say, thinking of Foucault, discursive?

Isn’t it into the discourse of things that we enter when considering our love for things?

(And then, a general thingification, a quantification whereby uncountable qualities,

1. bodies
2. (even to including the bodies of those we love and especially poignantly those)
3. things like
4. (the things we love are, like the best books we’ve read, eminently countable)
5. Bodhi Linux, which is an operating system
6. (certain things, like Linux operating systems, seem made for lists)
7. Mario Levrero who is or was an author, who wrote that unnecessary masterpiece, The Luminous Novel, whose The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine I’m currently reading
8. in French, when it appeared in 2022, Anéantir,

become numbers.)

Further to the following lithograph, A cloudburst of material possessions by Leonardo da Vinci

. . . the question arises of what is material and what immaterial, our

1. immaterial loves, for example
2. and, in contradistinction to,
3. our material loves.