by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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The “genotype” is her genetic constitution.
The “phenotype” is the observable expression of the genotype as
structural and biochemical traits.
Genetic disease is extreme genetic change, against a background of
normal variability.
Within the conventional unit we call subjectivity due to individual
particulars, what is happening?
She believes she is herself, which isn’t complete madness, it’s belief.
The problem is not to turn the subject, the effect of the genes, into
an entity.
Between her and the displaced gene is another relation, the effect of
meaning.
The meaning she’s conscious of is contingent, a surface of water in
an uninhabited world, existing as our eyes and ears.
You wouldn’t think of her form by thinking about water.
You can go in, if you don’t encounter anything.
Though we call heavy sense impressions stress, all impression
creates limitation.
I believe opaque inheritance accounts for the limits of her memory.
The mental impulse is a thought and a molecule tied together like
sides of a coin.
A girl says sweetly, it’s time you begin to look after me, so I may
seem lovable to myself.
She’s inspired to change the genotype, because the cell’s memory
outlives the cell.
It’s a memory that builds some matter around itself, like time.
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Feelings of helplessness drove me to fantastic and ridiculous
extremes.
Nevertheless, the axis of her helplessness is not the axis I grasp
when I consider it a function of inheritance.
Chromatin fails to condense during mitosis.
A fragile site recombines misaligned genes of the repeated sequence.
She seems a little unformed, gauze stretches across her face, eyelids
droop.
When excited, she cries like a cat and fully exhibits the “happy
puppet” syndrome.
Note short fingers and hypoplastic, painted nails.
Insofar as fate is of real order here, signifying embodiment, the
perceived was present in the womb.
A gap or cause presents to any apprehension of attachment.
In her case, there’s purity untainted by force or cause, like the life
force.
Where, generically, function creates the mother, in this case it won’t
even explain this area.
She screams at her.
A species survives in the form of a girl asking sweetly.
Nevertheless, survival of the species as whole has meaning.
Each girl is transitory.
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Her skull is large and soft to touch.
The thoracic cavity small, limbs short, deformed and vertebrae
flattened.
All the bones are undermineralized.
Bluish light surrounds her.
This theme concerns her status, since she doesn’t place her
inheritance in a position of subjectivity, but of an object.
Her X-ray teems with energy, but locked outside material.
One creates a mouse model of human disease by disrupting a
normal mouse gene in vitro, then injecting the mutated gene into
host embryos.
DNA integrated into the mouse genome is expressed and transmitted
to progeny.
Like touch, one cell can initiate therapy.
The phenotype, whose main task is to transform everything into
secondary, kinetic energy, pleasure, innocence, won’t define every
subject.
The mother’s genotype makes a parallel reality to her reality, now.
She stands over her and screams.
That the exchange is unreal, not imaginary, doesn’t prevent the
organ from embodying itself.
By transferring functional copies of the gene to her, he can correct
the mutant phenotype, lightly touching the bad mother, before.
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