Subject: _Mania, lussa, ate, ara, miasma, Erinys_...
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:40:36 EST


...and what a place to start again with Bataille's (yes Bataille's!) 
_The Impossible_, yes, yes!, at Part Three, "The Oresteia", past
"Discord", through "Me", atop "The Temple Roof",  w/here "I throw myself 
among the dead", "To Be Orestes". So, hey, whada[da]ya say, and I bet
you'll be nodding all the way if it weren't for chaos'  lapus, which
never lazy, turns land into a jouissance-sea, that sea surrounding
Sicily, to put it Epicharmianly.   

A little Aeschylus avec Bataille with an eye to Artaud's 'Theater of
Cruelty' perhaps, or is _Erinus_ taking me over, generation after
generation, while I still shout out  what Louis Gernet wrote: "The crime
exists outside him, it is objective." (p. 305, _Recherches sur le
developpement de la pensee juridique et morale en Grece_, Paris, 1917).
[Take a look next door, almost like coming through two doors, but still
far from a dithyrambos.] Once of the Furies, always of the Furies, even
in their turning. [note: was that an 'outside', there within the Blanchot
list a little while ago?!] {laughter}. 

Where is the _Peitho_ of  Athena, that "sweet beguilement" transforming
the Erinyes into Eumenides (yet the song remains the same) ( to sea with 
Don's post) as a sign-blind to that which still  human seeks.  These
metics, neither "anarchy nor despotism" (_Eumenides_, 525-526, 696),
catching over there neither Yves St. Laurels, nor "Manibus Date Lilia
Plenis" (see  Bataille Part Five of _Inner Experience_ ). So, then empty?
Ah!, the cinder, the cinder; may they be resistant. Some would see this
written from ink dipped from the birthing land of the Erinyes, instead of
the sea. Balls! For them, of course even serpents appear upon the furious
heads  - a chitterlings thread,  _your_-dues -known a deux, (twice and
leased) or to do a dieu to your city hearth of Athena, sending dunno-who
(as a letter to its destination) off  to "the cave of some blood-gorged
lion"? [Don, something worth looking into: F. Solmsen, "The Erinyes in
Aeschylus' Spetem," _Transactions and Proceedings of the American
Philological Association_, 69, (1937), pp. 197-211]. 

of course,
(-AT- _Gorgias_ 493a)

entre chien et loup dans
lalangue trespasses,
Lucio Angelo Privitello 

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