Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

The Discipline of Desire

Courtly love and the limits of sexual liberation

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Kenaz Filan
Apr 26, 2026
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Fear of Flying: Jong, Erica: 9780586041499: Amazon.com: Books

My response to all this was not (not yet) to have an affair and not (not yet) to hit the open road, but to evolve my fantasy of the Zipless Fuck. The zipless fuck was more than a fuck. It was a platonic ideal. Zipless because when you came together zippers fell away like rose petals, underwear blew off in one breath like dandelion fluff. Tongues intertw…

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