Penny Flame Unleashed: Part 1
By Penny Flame
Friday, April 6, 2007
In the first of an ongoing series, adult star
Penny Flame expounds on classical philosophy, literature and stardom. You've been warned.
I've never really considered myself a porn star. I've always been little Penny Flame, one for all and all for one, the flamingest flame of flames, but never quite a star.
For some reason, I've always associated stardom with fake tits, so there goes all logical reasoning you may think I have. Second, Casey Parker already writes about being in porn once a month for this fine site, and there is no need for me to repeat or contradict her. She can handle writing about being a capital-S Star, and I will write about ... logical reasoning?
Yes! This is what porn fans want to read about. How logical fallacies fall into three main groups:
• Fallacies of irrelevance.
• Fallacies of presumption.
• Fallacies of ambiguity.
I doubt you expected logical reasoning from me, which is fine.
Remember when I equated stardom with fake tits? That was a fallacy of presumption, or more specifically, a hasty generalization.
I think I'm losing you.
So let's talk about our favorite authors. Right now I'm reading Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn and he is kicking my ass all over the dictionary. Between the "vaginal laughter such as Jesus H. Christ and Immanuel Pussyfoot Kant never dreamed of" (189), and the excessive amount of fecundating he seems to enjoy, I find myself rereading pages like I didn't absorb a word the first time.
But once again, I feel weird talking about this, largely because I feel like I'm going to have to read this goddamn book 15 times in a row to understand what the fuck is going on -- which is what I think his intentions are: To hit you with enough streaming consciousness that you doubt your own consciousness. It's stunning. He has more thoughts on one page than I've had in my whole life. But that's fine. I like old Henry's thoughts better than mine anyway.
I guess that's why I read -- to escape my reality. Now there's a subject I know about: Escape.
All right. Now I'm warmed up. Let's talk.
