Zepke Stephen: Head in the Stars. Essays on Science Fiction

103 As opposed to assuming they must be repressed in order for the
social to function correctly, as hetero-normative society would have
it. See Delany, 1999a 188.
104 ‘by Natura naturans we must understand what is in itself and is conceived
through itself, [... and] by Natura naturata I understand whatever
follows from the necessity of God’s nature’ (EI, P29, Schol.).
105 Shit describes it somewhat differently, but no less dramatically on
his death bed: ‘when that boy turned around and stuck his dick up
my goddamn ass I thought the sky had opened up and the Congress
and the President of the United States had just declared Shit Haskell
was king of everything’ (792).
106 What better evidence for Spinoza’s parallelism? ‘The human mind
is capable of perceiving a great many things, and is the more capable,
the more its body can be disposed in a great many ways.’ (EII, P14) For
every affection experienced by the body there exists an idea in the
mind, an ‘idea’ rather than a ‘perception’ because perception implies
something caused by an object (EII, D3 + Exp.). As Eric thinks it;
‘something added to the sunlight rather than something that came
from it’. This takes us to; ‘The order and connection of ideas is the
same as the order and connection of things.’ (EII, P7) They are the same
substance only under the different attributes of thought and action
(EII, P7, Schol.).
107 Bull has a special function in the Dump, he delivers messages to
its occupants that actualise their till-then hidden desires. He is the
messenger of liberatory truth.
108 The published book only goes to section 113, as section 90 was
accidentally left out. The missing section can be found at http://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/chapter-90-through-the-valley-of-the-nestof-spiders/
109 ‘That thing is said to be finite in its own kind that can be limited
by another of the same nature. For example, a body is called finite
because we always conceive another that is greater. Thus a thought is
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