File spoon-archives/bataille.archive/bataille_1999/bataille.9902, message 141


Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:02:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Marsha Faizi <mfaizi-AT-rbnet.com>
Subject: Re: city of poets: =?iso-8859-1?Q?stupidit=E9?=


Jean Dragon wrote:

>
>Vous parlez comme si cette liste vous appartenait... Sachez que j'y
>participais bien avant que votre sombre nom n'y apparaisse...

The fact that you participated here long before me has no bearing on
anything at all. You have been absent, letting your computer to become
polluted, for two years. The list belongs to no one. It is what you or what
anyone makes it. If you want more discussion of Bataille, then, you will
have it. After awhile, however, that will become dull. Bataille died in 1962.


>	Une liste n'est pas une fantaisie mais bien un lieu de discussion
>et d'échange qui dmeurent dans les limites de l'intitulée, soit Georges
>Bataille.

That is certainly true if you want to limit yourself that much. It is my
opinion that Georges Bataille could not have wanted to think that there
could be people sitting at computers discussing, again and again, the same
old stuff. He was an artist. He would have wanted to move on. I do not think
that he could have wanted his imagination to be stifled. His imagination was
quite rich, was it not? I cannot see that such narrowness could serve any
purpose. What is so wrong with imagination that you consider it unworthy of
this list? I think that I was quite correct in my earlier assessment that an
analyst such as yourself makes a career from the analysis of art precisely
because you despise art. Your scrutiny and analysis belittles and lessens
it. That is your intention.


>	Pourquoi croyez-vous que cela devient une routine ence qui vous
>concerne? Probablement parce que vous ne parvenez pas =E0 obtenir le niveau
>de rigueur et d'honn=EAteté intellectuelle des sujets que vous ne parvenez
>pas m=EAme =E0 aborder, pire que vous polluez par pure impuissance! C'est
>tellement plus facile de s'exhiber béatement alors que l'auteur, ici
>Bataille, demanderait peut-=EAtre un peu plus d'efforts soutenus! Au lieu
>d'utiliser la liste, vous devriez vous créer un lieu de discussion propre =E0
>vos élucubrations. Mais il est déj=E0 trop tard de toute fa=E7on et je perds
>mon temps avec de l'imbécilité. Il n'y a que les imbéciles pour ne pas
>comprendre les enjeux ici.

I could not get a good translation on this but I will give it a try. No, I
am not as educated as yourself. In some ways, this is a detriment to me and,
in some ways, it is an asset. I can say that I would much rather be me than
to be you.

Education, though a wonderful tool, is not indicative of intelligence. One
may be quite well educated but his education so narrow that he is quite
limited by it as one is limited by the lack.

I am not, certainly, an imbecile. A lot of my intelligence is a matter of
sheer force. If you stay on this list, I guarantee you that you will not
find me uninteresting. I am not a little suck-up like some others. I am not
impressed by your professorship any more than I could be impressed by your
lack of such a thing. Your status does not matter to me.

Your English is ten times better than my French. That's a joke. I cannot
understand any French at all. So, if it is at all possible, could you
communicate in English? The translating gives me a headache. I think that,
if I was truly an imbecile, I would not have gone to the effort of
translating. If you write in English and must use a word or two or a
sentence of French, I can look that up. The long passages are tedious, however.

This is my shortcoming and I really do regret that I am not, at least,
bilingual. However, if you could accomodate me, I would greatly appreciate
it. Your English is easily understood by me.

Faizi


   

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