Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/14: Difference between revisions

It is possible that many kinds of major sensual experience are sublimated into particular sports. For example, last night, with her across my lap,{{LJ:Adele}} her body exposed and my hands conquering over it, I realized suddenly how close a woman’s body is to a ski slope, and perhaps the fascination of skiing is due to a particular frustration of a particular kind of sexual experience—the great skier needs such triumph and does not have the psychic possibility of finding it in life. Hence he rides like a charioteer over a ski slope, a giant ascetic woman open to his fury. {{ins|That is, a skin may be capable of all sexual enjoyment, but the one of laying conquering hands whom a wondrous nudity.}}