Sexing The Cherry

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Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other has not. Femeia cu Cîini e o făptură grotescă. Pregătește cîini de luptă și duce o viață marginală și sordidă. Într-o zi, îl culege pe Jordan din apele Tamisei și, în felul ei cvasi-primitiv și înduioșător, se va atașa de băiat. Îl va păzi cu gelozie de pericole. Și, mai ales, îl va învăța să iubească marea... Jordan este inițiat de grădinarul regal, John Tradescant, în botanică și amîndoi vor porni în lungi călătorii peste mări (și țări), pentru a aduce în Anglia plante și fructe exotice. La întoarcere, îi vor uimi pe londonezi arătîndu-le o banană sau un fruct de ananas. Nu este sigur dacă toate călătoriile lui Jordan sînt reale. În partea a doua a cărții, Jordan pare a voiaja mai degrabă în imaginar. Într-o lume virtuală / onirică, le va întîlni pe cele 12 prințese dănțuitoare din basmul fraților Grimm. Fiecare prințesă îi va spune povestea ei. Cam atît despre ceea ce se petrece în roman. This being the third book I've read by Winterson, I've concluded that she is certainly not the average writer. She's incredibly unique, and there is an oddity in her works. Winterson is definitely an acquired taste, but I've realised she's definitely 'my taste.' On that last day, however, when the family can't find words to express the love, and loss, and worry, he reflects:

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The cattle were all drowned and the moat-light, like a lighthouse, appeared and vanished and vanished and appeared, cutting the air like a bright sword. Vişnenin Cinsiyeti"nin ne hakkında olduğunun hiç bir önemi yok aslında. Önemli olan, farkedilmeden içinden fırlayan hayatlar. Farkedilmeden. Okuyucu bağlamındaysa özgür irademizle, hiç kimsenin tesiri altında kalmadan anlayacağız ki bir çocuk bir kadının kalbini kıracak ve bunu onu sevmesini sağlayarak yapacak. Öte yandan onun kalbine çok talip çıkacak ama kimse kazanamayacak, çünkü o aşkın bir yüreği nasıl etkilediğini öğrenemeyecek. Kalbini vermek isteyeceği tek kişiyse onu reddedecek ve bu çağları kapsayan modern masalda kocalarıyla olamasa da mutluluğu yakalamış on iki prensesin de hikayesi anlatılacak. Zaman, içinde bir ileri bir geri gittiğimiz düşlerimizdeki gibi içimizde hareket ederken, bütün karşılaştıklarımızın bir parçası oldığumuzu, bütün karşılaştıklarımızın da bizim bir parçamız olduğunu anlayacağız. Zamanla. Look again at the moment when Jordan sees the banana and, with it, a world beyond the reality of the present, a place with “deep blue waters against a pale shore and trees whose branches sang with green” (p. 6). As the Dog-Woman states “this was the first time Jordan set sail” (p. 6). What does she mean by this, and what is its relevance to the novel as a whole? My reading partner underlined the fruit and wrote: "Penis!" Well, yes. And no. One of the amazing things about reading Jeanette Winterson is her magical way of describing reality. She does not hide (homo)sexuality, religion, cross-dressing or brutal violence, so I don't see why it needs to be pointed out all the time. On the other hand, she gives her storylines several layers of meaning, so that the complexity of human desire and exploration is in focus, not a banal equation of word and meaning. The banana in the story is so much more than: x-2=0, therefore x=2. At some point, the banana incident is explained further: Sexing the Cherry" is all about the strange correlation between past, present and future, and the way human beings navigate time and space, physically and in their imagination. It is about the places we really go to and the things we experience in our minds. What is real? What is true? If I see something in my head, does that mean it has happened, even if I just imagine it?

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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. Narrator, p. 90 John Tradescant is an explorer who voyages to different places and also works as a gardener to King Charles I. Tradescant takes on Jordan as his apprentice, and also takes him on voyages to collect plant specimens. Nicholas Jordan Physicist Albert Einstein once wrote ‘ the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion,’ time being an illusion neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar argues our minds create to ‘ aid in our sense of temporal presence.’ As with everything else in the book, Winterson’s approach to time follows Einstein’s assertion that it is an illusion and opens up a fantastic avenue in which the characters in 20th century London both are and aren’t those in the 17th century version. Sexing the Cherry is best when it dips into gorgeously poetic ponderings of time and ourselves as fallible and failing vessels temporarily sailing upon its seas. ‘ Where will we go next, when there are no more wildernesses?’ Winterson asks. Time, and inside ourselves in our understanding of it, appears to be the next great voyage. The Dog-Woman briefly describes her loveless childhood ending with the murder of her father. Is it surprising that, having known no love in her own life, she is able to love Jordan as she does? What does she believe about love? Does she fear it for herself? For Jordan?

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Meanwhile, Jordan sails with Tradescant around the world. Either over the course of the voyage, or within the space of his imagination, Jordan catches a glimpse of a beautiful woman and becomes obsessed with finding her. He eventually encounters 11 princesses who all live together; they explain that, as a group of 12 sisters, they used to sneak out to go dancing at night, but eventually a prince solved the mystery of how they were escaping. As a reward, the prince and his 11 brothers married the 12 princesses; however, the youngest princess, named Fortunata, escaped on the wedding day. Eventually the other princesses also ended up single again. Jordan is convinced that Fortunata is the elusive woman he is pursuing, and continues to look for her.

So yes, it is a phallic symbol, and Winterson does not hide that at all, but it is also a symbol for discovering things you didn't know before, things that you have access to because the world has opened up. The book was written in 1989, and for parts of Europe, the banana became a symbol of free access to the world market. Reading Eastern European authors of that era, you inevitably stumble upon bananas sooner or later. I just got mad at the one-dimensional interpretation delivered by the person reading MY copy of this beloved book before me. (But thanks for dumping it in a thrift store, my book budget is constantly strained!) The marvelous and the horrific, the mythic and the mundane overlap and intermingle in this wonderfully inventive novel.”— The New York Times Take this opportunity to discuss the formidable character of the Dog-Woman, the strong and immensely likable presence at the center of the novel. Talk about her personal sense of morality (“her pressing need to do away with scoundrels” (p. 156) that turns her into a murderer, her fierce maternal instincts, her pragmatism, her gentle side. Is she a living contradiction or is she a fully rounded, flawed example of human nature? Look at the following and discuss how well it captures her essence: “There were the usual villains on the sands, hoping to rob a poor woman in her sleep, but I pushed them under-water and left them bloated with salt. In my spare time I collected shells” (p. 122).

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People say the magic has gone out of the moon now that someone’s stood on it. I don’t think so. It would take more than a man’s foot to steal the moon.” The future lies ahead like a glittering city, but like the cities of the desert disappears when approached. Narrator, p. 144 I am in awe of Jeanette Winterson's writing. I don't know how else to put it. After The Passion, I honestly thought I could not be more impressed. But I think "Sexing The Cherry" may be even better. I suspect that her short novels should be read again as soon as you have added another one to your repertoire, because there are recurring themes and (fruity) flavours that are definitely part of Winterson's general narrative. Fortunata is a beautiful woman who is a gifted dancer. She grew up as a princess with 11 sisters, but ran away to avoid marriage to a man she did not love. Fortunata ends up living on an isolated island where she runs a dance school. Jordan and Fortunata have a romantic relationship after he finds her, but she is unwilling to leave her life behind to go with him. John Tradescant

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”

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Wonderfully titled and less porny than expected, "Sexting the Cherry" is a brilliant poem-in-prose. It's hilarious; the details are awkward and perfect. The silliness is nicely coated by pathos--something grand is stirring, yet, as Winterson proposes, it is not particularly mentioned. Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle." On his travels Jordan meets a member of the Hopi, an Indian tribe and learns that their language has no tenses for past, present, and future. “They do not sense time in that way. For them, time is one” (p. 155). Using this quote as a springboard, discuss the place of time in the novel. Does Jordan believe that it is possible to exist in more than one time? Why and how? Give examples. Talk about the “journeys within journeys” that are so important to Jordan and their relationship to time. Within the context of the novel consider how it is possible that “the future and the present and the past exist only in our minds.”

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This quotation represents a moment where Winterson makes it explicit that events in the novel are not always presented as objectively accurate. Jordan describes a scene with Fortunata, but then muses that he might be either imagining something that has not yet happened, or recalling something that has already taken place. This quotation shows that the categories of memory, fantasy, and observation are not necessarily clear-cut, especially when emotions are involved. Because Jordan feels so much love and longing for Fortunata, it becomes even harder for him to discern what is real and what he is imagining. Why, why should I give you time? What time are you giving me? I am in a cell waiting to be called for execution. Told through the lens of historical fiction, such as in The Passion, blended with the magical realism, Sexing the Cherry questions what we perceive as real or factual. This gives room for a whimsical and imaginative book, with scenes such as a city where words become physical objects floating from mouths that must be mopped off the sky and an entire town that exists without gravity. This blending also reminds us that history is often a narrative framed for a specific purpose. Winterson seeks to subvert all this, reframing the English Civil War not from the perspective of nobility and soldiers but from a common woman, the ogre-like character Dog Woman. Fairy Tales are rewritten from the perspective of the women in them, such as the Twelve Dancing Princesses rejecting (and often murdering) their husbands and living life in love with other women. The story of Rapunzle is recast to show the witch was actually her older lover and the Prince attempts to kill the witch for some mistaken belief it is to protect the young princess’ “purity and innocence” (this same argument of protecting [white, cis, hetero] “purity and innocence” has been frequently used by those seeking to ban books in libraries) First published in 1989, Sexing the Cherry feels like it could have been written today and would perfectly figure into reading lists of feminist fairy tale or myth retellings that have been popular lately as well as Winterson’s gleefully LGBTQ advocacy and representation. Winterson clearly believes in imbuing her characters with an agency, a sense of self that can even be separated from the story. This is very evident in her retelling of the tale of the twelve dancing sisters, where each sister practices an autonomy that is unshakeable in its essence. I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams.”