Editorial Introduction: A Correspondence with Critical Intimacy - Marsha Meskimmon Illustrations Editorial Note Figures INTRODUCTION PART ONE: PRACTICES OF BODY AND MIND I Responsiveness The Performer as a Work in Progress Presentness The Honesty of a "Provocateur" and an "Iconoclast" Perceptions from a Discerning Body Lovestruck Play and Lovestruck Unions Being Aphrodite Beauty, Economy, and Necessity Dress/Habits Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Yoga (with Some Words about Bodybuilding) Everyday Life A Time Defined by Honey II Reading How I Used to Read How I Read Now A Very Select Bibliography from 2004-2010 with Some Comments III Theory: In Behalf of Muses Why I Love the Boys Two Pearls and Many Kisses Bless You, Boys, I Wish You Well IV Conversation: Salons Assumptions Be Perfect Be Perfect Be Perfect With Me The Ultimate Tenderness of Resurrection The Efficiency of Peace Not Driven Anymore The Exceptional Person Wild Sacred Space Dreaming the World into Being PART TWO: THE RESULTS OF PLEASURE V Performing Performing and Re-Performing: Debuts and Transformations Readings and Performances Audio and Video Pieces Photography The Activity and Experience of Performing, from Seductiveness to Comedy and Specialness to Serenity VI Performance Texts, 2005-2010 A Flowering of Vision 2005 Maiden Elder 2006 The Sphinx Unwinds Her Own Sweet Self 2007 Goddess of Roses 2007 Sexual Advances 2009 The Dark Lord and His Wily Mistress 2009 I AM Desire 2010.