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A Review of London Liming and Talking in Tongues
Guest blogger Charlotte Morgan-Nwokenna reviews London Liming & Talking in Tounges, two events featured in the London Literature Festival 2008.
Roman Jakobson: “Poetry is organized violence on ordinary speech”
Post “London Liming”, liming is my new word of choice for a higher plane of grazing/cotching. It’s that blissfully unoccupied space in your brain, the g spot of recreation, you may not have found it yet, hell you may never find it, but irritatingly plenty of folks will keep regaling their tales of Zen whilst you wonder why you didn’t thief that seemingly pointless page of tips out of Marie Claire from the doctor’s surgery. Ahem…anyway liming is kind of like the Caribbean equivalent of what the French call jouissance, a term flogged to death by thinkers such as Roland Barthes when referring to “on the one hand pleasure (plaisir) linked to cultural enjoyment of identity…to a homogenizing movement of the ego; on the other a radically violent pleasure which shatters, dissipates, loses – that ego”. It has been said that the English do not have a word that can carry the meaning of jouissance, well liming seems to be the closest we’ll get to a word that can convey the coming together and the coming away made feasible through mental climax. Any type of pleasure you can conjure up in your mind is pretty much covered by this zestily satisfying term, one that can express the simultaneous union of the self and its fragmentation, all via chilling out and finding your own space to just be…
“London Liming” began by educating those who were new to what liming represents. The interfusion of video footage and performance reinforced a sense of unity and beauty between the theme and all its varying reflections.
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