Book Review in Verse by Paul Dolinsky on NY Times article by Sophie Fontanel article on her book, The Art of Sleeping

Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex

Part I. Sensation and Self Being one to watch over its own most carefully, the mind watches the body assume its attitudes and latitudes toward things. The mind perceives the life of sensation as full of motion, sometimes commotion, locomotion of limbs seek to fulfill their nature and function. The mind sees each sense entranced at its entry ways, seeking to fulfill its horme, its proper function, then, find its way back home to greet the other senses. round the campfire of the mind. They will share stories of excess and deficiency, just-in-time marketing vs. truancy, with talk-back from all the bodys senses and extremities,

all welcomed, at story time. 2. With companions, or in solitude the mind is always solitary, and there is always a world around it. When the mind grows quiet, each sense can display its own nature, and deploy its realm of experience for each sense to sense, in its own way. Before conversation can commence, the mind lightens itself, slows down so it can be be filled with sensation. Immersion in the bodys quickening happens quickly, and the senses beckon each other to join their tasting party. 3. The article on Sophie Fontanel's book describes not living without sex but living so that all the senses can experience and express themselves, with no distractions. Otherness, always a force to reckon with, beckons from a distance. It seeks to lure you from your bodys here and now

toward the less certain dimensions of the other. Stay centered and focused, take no traveling companion, just the suitcase of your skin, on your journey into sensation. Leave your mind, and other minds-with-bodies behind, in your phenomenological body-speak journey. Part II - Sensation in the Digital Age (Part II functions as an Afterward, here, to this review in verse, of NYT article & book by Sophie Fontanel) The digitized age takes sensation back from the imagination, digitizes and hands it back to sense perception. The immediate sensate, once pushed aside by books and conversation, now summons the mind to ponder and recreate what sensation has seized again. In the on-line age, sensations get digitized, multiplexed, multiplied.

Humanity comes of age, and re-enters the age of childhood wonder. The sources of sensation grow ever more manifest and multiform, all its fruit showing. Yet, each observer is thrown back to their single self who watches with one skin and three senses out of five, spread, wide and thin, over all the continents time zones and centuries, which come and go. Only the yet-to-be remains off limits, off line not yet accessible, pass-codes intact, as yet, unhacked. The mystery of subjectivity remains so deeply felt, you need but one skin to feel. Book Review in Verse by Paul Dolinsky on NY Times article by Sophie Fontanel article on her book, The Art of Sleeping Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/life-without-sex.html?hp&_r=0