in which the author, new to tubmlr., makes an inadvertent Freudian slip
So I come to tumblr. based on a happenstance link from something or another having to do with typography.
Ah… typography. Rule 34 says that if it exists, there is pornography about it. And like many people who enter the net and find - to their surprise - that there are far more people than expected who share their idiosyncratic pleasures, I too have found that I am not alone in my fondness for a well turned fillet. Indeed, my affliction, (dare we call it a fetish?) seems quite mild compared to some peoples’ but this is not a contest and ancillary to the main.
So I’ve come to tumblr. and posted my “Hello World” entry. If Duchamp can have his objet trouvé so then can I, no? My found art was bananas, precisely two, fashioned first by natural selection and then the heavy hand of banana farmers over the last 8’000 years or so.
But the bananas didn’t exactly speak for themselves, which led me to caption it (in Ocalla Hand BTN, if you must know). The word that entered my mind when I picked up the bananas was “conjoined” as in the phrase “conjoined twins”. Having the artistic dictum “go with your first impression” in one hand and bananas in the other yielded “conjunction”. So far, so good, so posted.
Then, as it happened, or perhaps I should say “as it was meant to happen”, tumblr. decided to show me some other people’s activities. The first thing that caught my eye after learning what “reblogging” meant was a photograph of nectarines. So I reblogged it. Still nothing to fret about.
Then I went to see my magnum opus consisting of an image of bananas, the word “conjunction” and a photograph of quartered nectarines, whence Freud entered the picture. But really, sometimes a banana is just a banana, and nectarines are not symbolic vulvae; and yet there it is.
