Subject: Re: Declining Evening Sun, or 'Only the Lonely'
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:34:16 PST


wtf!!!
it's not erotic enough!!!
not enticing enough!!!
blEUh-AT-!

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>Exploring the state or status of the individual in solitude: neither 
>master nor slave -- nor even a "master deprived of his mastery and cast 
>adrift in the world" (Michael Richardson, introduction to Georges 
>Bataille, THE ABSENCE OF MYTH: Verso 1994, p. 20).  The individual in 
>solitude experiences an excess of personality, which at first strikes 
>the head and heart -- strikes 'home', that is -- as some sort of 
>'decay'.  Truly, one only possesses a personality, an identity, in 
>relation to other beings in the world; without interaction, one 
>stagnates, and repeats movements that are not "inherent" by any means, 
>but are rather LEARNED via interaction with a world in continual flux: 
>becoming.  
>
>But are not the most original 'voices' (in the realm of literary 
>expression, at least) those of the recluses, the hermits, the idlers in 
>a tabernacle of Thought?  For "The Marvelous is at the root of the 
mind" 
>(Artaud, SELECTED WRITINGS, p. 103), and the mind only comes into its 
>own, communicates purely with itself, in compete and utter solitude.  
>Shut out from a world of competing voices, from a world of would-be 
>'interpreters' [and why not check out Geoffrey Hartman's essay, 'The 
>Interpeter'? ... now where did I put that book?  I can't even recall 
the 
>title ...] who can only misread individual expression, while at the 
same 
>time making it their own, appropriating it, the individual in solitude 
>hears his own voice as an affirmation of the existence of a being 
beyond 
>himself: a being who never acts but always observes action -- an 
>identity operating from somewhere without, an identity which, if 
>captured by an attempt to make it manifest, will only withdraw, and 
>inscribe madness on the walls of its tunnel.
>
>"... I fell into a trap, so strong has my hatred remained -- not only 
of 
>the intelligence and reason but of the 'mind' ..." (Bataille, THE 
>ABSENCE OF MYTH, p. 46).  A hatred brought about by the realization 
that 
>all the products of the mind can never be experienced on their own 
>ground, in their own RIGHT, but can only be 'adequated' through a 
>movement of familiarization in an equally individual realm -- a realm 
>that is equal only in action, but clearly inferior in its self-deluding 
>insistence on "the suffering which makes the suffering become joyful" 
>(ibid., p. 48).  Severance from the world of beings is a pain that is 
>only temporary: if the individual is weak, he will succumb to the pain, 
>and return to oppression and dependence; if the individual is strong, 
he 
>will (re-)emerge in a "white and incongruous void" waiting to be filled 
>by the transgressive outbursts of a truly autonomous being.  
>
>
>Edward Moore
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