Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. (Winterson, 90)<\/p>\n
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Winterson\u2019s Written in the Body<\/em> complicates normative structures of time and space in multiple ways particularly in the narration and language of the novel. At this point in the novel, the narrator and Louise have reached a point in their relationship where they\u2019ve recognized the serious repercussions of their emotions and actions. They are both consumed by their love for one another despite the uncertainty of their future, which constructs a different understanding of the passing and measurement of time. The narrator is content with the inevitable decay of their relationship with Louise because they are aware that their time with her cannot be compared to normative structures of time. Their relationship is \u201cripe,\u201d signifying its impending decomposition while also highlighting the fact that their relationship is in its prime. The narrator continuously fixates over the ways that time affects their relationships, especially with Louise because they exist outside of the parameters of what is deemed as acceptable in society. The narrator states, \u201ctime that withers you will wither me,\u201d emphasizing how the physical and emotional aspects of their relationship are connected and influenced by time. Halberstam\u2019s In a Queer Time and Place<\/em> illustrates the ways in which queer time or non-heteronormative time operates in a world where the constant \u201cdiminishing future creates a new emphasis on the here, present, and now and while the threat of no future hovers overhead\u2026the urgency of being also expands the potential of the moment.\u201d (2) The constraints of time have strengthened and intensified their relationship and when the \u201cearth covers [the narrator and Louise] and [they] are gone,\u201d they will still be together as time extends past what is constructed around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. (Winterson, 90) Winterson\u2019s Written in the Body complicates normative structures of time and space in multiple … Continue reading If you’re lost you can look and you will find me… time after time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}