Then I felt all the bodily part of desire kick into life, all right — the melting and the thrumming and the longing.
And Karl Duncker's (1941, pp. 414-15) phenomenologicanalysissis has anticipatory pleasure as part of desire but takes this as different in kind from 'actual pleasure' and also requires that pleasure always have an object (pp. 399-400).
A key part of desire is the other person's mystery, but we are compelled to try to destroy the very thing which excites us, the unknowable in them.
And while Madonna dealt in transgression nearly from the start, Ms. Minogue naturally circumvents the dark parts of desire.
Ms. Raffo, the author and star of "Nine Parts of Desire," exudes a sense of breezy entitlement, but also a vague discomfort at the discord between the freedom of her life in New York and the oppression her family is enduring.
View Article Geraldine Brooks is the author of five novels, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner, "March," and three works of nonfiction, including "Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women".
WOMRATH'S BOOKSTORE Irene Abbassi, head of the English department at Teaneck's Al-Ghazali Junior/Senior High Schooleadill leadiscussionsiof of the book, "Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women" by Geraldine Brooks.
Brooks is as adventurous a novelist as she once was a journalist, reporting from the Balkans in the 1990s and writing about the lives of Muslim women in "Nine Parts of Desire".
Heather Raffo, an Iraqi-American performer and writer (she did the acclaimed one-woman show "9 Parts of Desire"), plays a relatively spoiled Arab-American cousin, Hayat, and she was having trouble with a transition.
Among other Blackburn awards, special commendations of $2,000 each went to Heather Raffo for "Nine Parts of Desire," running through mid-June at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater, and the London playwright Chloe Moss for "How Love Is Spelt".
Brooks, a former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, has written two well-received books of nonfiction, "Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women" and "Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey From Down Under to All Over".
