The quest for
The author of A Handbook for my Lover talks about the idea of lust and desire.
Rosalyn D'mello Author, A Handbook for my Lover, Delhi
It used to be just lust. It used to be the only linguistic instance I could imagine where the adjective 'just' signified excess, not restraint. Just lust. Guiltless, shameless, astonishing lust. I fed the word into my computer's internal search engine. A mail dating to 2007 emerged; a letter to a poet. Its subject: Lustory. "I wonder how many times I must tell you that I want very little from you. I want your body to long for my black nothingness, to quiver at the mere touch of my gaze, to live off every
