an amazing little narrative this one seems to come up all the time in crit theory, Derrida talks a bunch about it, it's huge for Plath, & recently Ngai has been using it in an AMAZING essay in Theory of the Gimmick (which she claims took her twenty years to write). I LOVEd James' style already but I think Ngai's reading just elevates this

also such a beautiful & delicate & amusing! way of exploring queer relationships