| Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
 | Metawanking - wanking on about wanking, possibly while wanking - continues apace with Slightly Scary Steve:
I'm getting some feedback. I wouldn't put it down to my obsessiveness though it is part of my many fantasies - female masturbation. Just that I was watching while it was happening, and my laptop was ready to blog, so blog it, I did.
I'd like to observe archly that I've never heard it called that before, but I sort of have, so leave it aside. The main problem here being that it is just possible that the use of italics on "obsessiveness" is an attempt to correct my choice of words.
"Obsess", originally, meant to besiege. From the Latin, doncha know. Whereas "obsessive" lacks this meaning entirely through its inappropriate activation, "obsession" and its cognate "obsessional" retain it, although it is rarely employed. Thus, "I am obsessed by x" has the surviving implication that x is laying siege to you. Now, Big Brother is interesting precisely because it parallels the siege metaphor so nicely - the participants are cut off in a single location, surrounded by the audience, and, unable to break out, are instead reduced by attrition through the actions of that audience. Thus they are obsessed in one sense, the viewer is obsessed in another.
That sound? Oh, that's you. In the kitchen. Putting the kettle on. In a dressing gown. Because you're my wife now.
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