Wood Technology in the Design of Structures (or, How to Live Happily Ever After)
It is no use saying: We are not green plants; we have long since been unable to synthesize chlorophyll, so it's necessary to eat
Desire then becomes this abject fear of lacking something.

Deleuze & Guatarri,
Anit-Oedipus

She longed to die, and yet she longed to live in Paris.

Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary
Our focus here is on the self-negating, often passionately held conviction that "life is elsewhere". The consequences of this alienated form of desire are played out in a universe where people long to eat wood.

1997, 9:10