Leash – Jane DeLynn

It is a state of mind, a mode of being, in which the physical is merely an objective correlative of the internal reality. On my part, in return for your surrender and trust, I promise not to seriously injure or kill you or cause permanent bodily disfiguration or harm, to cease all acts immediately should you lose consciousness, to get you immediate medical attention should such ever be necessary, and if at some point I feel that you are physically or psychically unable to continue this contract, I will terminate it.

But you must understand, I’ll be the one to decide if that point is reached, not you.” She paused. The breeze from the open window chilled my sweat. I breathed deeply, with my mouth open, for I was not getting enough oxygen. “I’m nervous,” I said.

I coughed, not because I really needed to clear my throat, but because the sound reassured me I existed. “Of course.” She wiped the hair from my eyes, the gesture that more than anything comforts me. I could feel her fingers around my eyes, feeling the wet. “It’s an incredibly big step you’re making. Surely the biggest of your life.” Although I told myself it was corny, I felt scared. “Have you really done this before?” I asked. “Have you done this before?”

she replied. We were silent. “There are no testimonials here. You are entering a world in which it is just you and me. I could have participated in a hundred relationships just like this, and all of them might have ended in . . . death. I could have had a hundred relationships like this, all of which were incredibly exciting and . . . ‘life-affirming.’

“Leash is strong, compulsive, gripping reading, as morally complex eash as transgressive fiction gets. It goes places few – if any – books land, not only in terms of its arousing, sexually explicit candor, but also in its uncomfortable psychological honesty. Wise, provocative and completely absorbing, Leash has the horrifying simplicity of Kafka.” —Bret Easton Ellis Leash JANE DE LYNN Semiotext(e) ,!7IB5I4-dfabej! SEMIOTEXT(E) NATIVE AGENTS NATIVE AGENTS: NOT IMPORTED OR ACCLIMATIZED, HAVING QUALITIES INNATE IN THE PERSON OR THING.

LEFT OR REMAINING IN DISTRIBUTED BY THE MIT PRESS A NATURAL STATE. FORCES, AGENTS, PRODUCING A CHANGE OR ALTERING A PROCESS; OR THOSE ACTING IN A COVERT OR CON-ISBN 1-58435-014-8 SPIRATORIAL MANNER, SECRETLY OR UNDERGROUND, SEEKING TO DISTURB A PRESENT CONSTITUTION OR AUTHORITY. Leash Lea as JANE DELYNN h Semiotext(e) Acknowledgements SECTIONS OF THIS NOVEL WERE PRINTED IN BAD SEX IS GOOD (PAINTED LEAF PRESS, 1998), BEST OF THE UNDERGROUND (MASQUERADE, 1999), BEST LESBIAN EROTICA 1998 (EDITED BY JENNIFER LEVIN & TRISTAN TAORMINO) AND THE BEST OF BEST LESBIAN EROTICA (CLEIS PRESS, 2000).

– LEASH. COPYRIGHT ©2001 JANE DELYNN. EDITED BY CHRIS KRAUS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE USED OR REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF BRIEF QUOTATIONS EMBODIED IN CRITICAL ARTICLES AND REVIEWS. – FIRST SEMIOTEXT(E) EDITION PUBLISHED 2001 – ISBN 1-58435-014-8 – DESIGNED AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF NUTS + BOLTS, D.O.D.

( WWW.THEROYALACADEMY.ORG ). COVER ILLUSTRATION BY KATHARINE KUHARIC, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND P.P.O.W. GALLERY. BACK COVER PORTRAIT BY ROBERT GIARD. – SEMIOTEXT(E) 2571 W. STREET LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90057 AND 501 PHILOSOPHY HALL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, NY 10027 THANKS TO SEAN DEYOE FOR HIS CAREFUL AND CARING WORK ON THIS BOOK, ALSO TO SHANNON DURBIN, & ESPECIALLY TO CHRIS KRAUS, EDITOR EXTRAORDINAIRE — JD For my dear friend Tsipi – & (of course) Kate Desire can never be satisfied, because it is a desire to desire.

—Jacques Lacan Leash 1. What I Own 1 My Current having gone to Stockholm to research public housing over the summer recess, old longings began to stir. I had chosen, somewhat perversely, to remain in the city for the summer, for the sake, I now realized, of these strange longings. Our loft overlooked the Hudson River, and I remembered nights when we had first moved in, how I had gazed in envy at the men outside, walking, unspeaking, to their anonymous, compulsive rituals.

The pier into which they vanished was long gone, and for a while, too, so were the men.

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