Perception was heaving, the stomach turning
The following text is from book "Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes" by Margaret Iversen. Do "perception" and "stomach" in it mean "Smithson's perception and stomach"?
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catttt Do "perception" and "stomach" in it mean "Smithson's perception and stomach"? Yes. His use of "the" there is unusual, surely a conscious decision to avoid "my", but "the" is used similarly in other ways in English.
- catttt Do "perception" and "stomach" in it mean "Smithson's perception and stomach"?
- Yes.
- His use of "the" there is unusual, surely a conscious decision to avoid "my", but "the" is used similarly in other ways in English.
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cattttDo "perception" and "stomach" in it mean "Smithson's perception and stomach"?
Yes. His use of "the" there is unusual, surely a conscious decision to avoid "my", but "the" is used similarly in other ways in English. You would say "I got punched in the stomach" and not "I got punched in my stomach." It also reminds me of the French way of putting things
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Yes, I think you must be right.
Iversen mentions Smithson and then opens quotation marks. I understand then that she has handed the narrative over to the work of Smithson so long as the quotes last - the first person within those quotes is Smithson, unless we are told otherwise.
So yes, it is Smithson's perception and his stomach.
Dave
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