[ Post a Response | The Sublime Desire of Cigarette Smoking ]
Posted by vesperae
on May 9, 2008, 2:24 am, in reply to "Re: Identity"
I agree with your analysis completely Casey! 
Smoking imposes something very foreign on our most basic rhythm of life and most immediate need for survival - respiration; so I think that we all tend to react to smoking on a deeply primitive level. The act of making breath visible with smoke is quite dramatic, and in it's unnaturalness it alternately suggests the profane or the holy, or perhaps even both...
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