February 8th, 2007
Intimacy
It would be maybe a little awesome if the lens of a webcam looked exactly like the eyeball of the person watching at the other end. Of course, for all you know, many people might be watching. Or it might be a disembodied computer intelligence. Ah, romance!
Transcriptorial: just right: you, kept in / a tidy video frame
But you can’t get intimacy just by looking someone. You need to touch; you need to feel their breath against your neck and the way their fingers feel against yours. Intimacy is a close connection. Touching is an act of closeness. Watching is an act of distance.
Oh yes, certainly. The narrator, behind his camera, does not know what he is missing. I came up with this installment after watching a film in which one character did live like this, disembodied in a way, in a secure room and experiencing other people through a camera.
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