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Maurice Nadeau’s History of Surrealism
You fill in the line of thought for me. “Everyone is a trap; nobody’s gaze is authoritative. Not even that suit guy.”
“To be a transsexual woman is to be the scapegoat of an order of representation in which someone has to be held accountable for the failure of signs to be adequate to things. In trap metaphysics, we’re comprehensible only as the lowest kind of deceivers. To the cis, we are choosing to be female. But who would choose that? So we must be traps, deceivers. We are the even-worse things in the world.”
“Cheers to that!” Deciding we’re to get hammered, you order another round.
The trans woman as the femme who is the false maker of the false. Truth as a woman. We are those whose unbidden desires make everything. And to the extent that everyone turns their desires into signs of something other than an approximation to a nonexistent ideal, not only is everyone femme; everyone is trans. Only difference is that we know it. We’re ahead of the game!”
“Aha! Platonism again! It’s like your game today is to show everything has the same trap metaphysics. Where there’s a form or idea, that’s what’s really true, and everything falls short of it by degrees.”
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