ABSTRACT
Never hug or kiss them, never let them sit on your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say good night. Shake hands with them in the morning.
(Watson 1928; cited by Synnot in Classen 2005: 41)
The body enjoys being touched. It enjoys being squeezed, weighed, thought by other bodies, and being what squeezes, weighs, and thinks other bodies . . . Nothing ever becomes the sum or the system of the corpus. A lip, a finger, a breast, a strand of hair are the temporary and agitated whole of a joy that is each time temporary, agitated, in a hurry to enjoy again and elsewhere. This elsewhere is all over the body, in the body of all the parts, which each can be a part of another, in an indefinitely ectopic corpus.
