EXCERPT The cuddly cousin of asceticism and masochism, Cute runs a tangent to sex (or tangentialises it), travelling near but always passing alongside. Every drive is an OP Idea focused on a distant vanishing point the mirage of which, glimpsed beyond the closed circle it projects onto the looking glass of reproductive utility, serves to ensure that the organism overshoots to hit the target, tracking an extravagant vector that satisfaction expunges. It is at the point where consummation is deviated and we pass beyond the looking glass that the adventure begins…