IX

The Wound

• I fell.
• I was struck.
• I was pierced.
• I was taken.

Later iconography makes desire a trajectory that arrives before deliberation. The arrow is a later image, not Hesiod’s limb-loosening and not a speech at Agathon’s party. After a strike, the field is no longer even.

The field is still. Then a trajectory crosses it.

What changes when attention has been struck?

This is one inherited grammar for an event that feels, to many, as if it did not begin as a choice.