Gut Symmetries

For relief from too much reality, Jeanette Winterson's cubistic, asymmetrical narrative of a love triangle does the trick. I selected it for its plot, the part where the mistress falls in love with the wife, but am equally entertained by the mathematical metaphors and the over the top family history of the characters. What plot is squeezed in is so outrageous that the images summoned become metaphors too.

Some in the lesbian community think that Winterson is intellectually pretentious, while others find her incomprehensible. Later I discover that she is one of the authors of a collection of anarchistic essays recommended by flickr friend coalandice. This somehow doesn't surprise me. The lesbian community was once a hideaway of anarchistic ideas, but now the youngsters just want to get married and have babies. Gack.