File spoon-archives/bataille.archive/bataille_1999/bataille.9902, message 165


From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: criminal pollution
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:20:11 -0500 (EST)


Dear Shaheena 
 I wake up and you have already gone to work. I have been thinking
about the archival memories again and can't remember anybody, except the
chief inspector recently, quoting any of the juicy passages from
Bataille's novels. I think this says a lot about the repression and
self-censorship on this list... I am going to have a lacanian inspired
"hommelette" for breaksfast today. 

 Looking over a book which inspired me to read Valenzuela by D. Emily
Hicks called _Border Writing: The Multidimensional Text_ I find a
remark where she says that; "literary criticism is always a rewriting;
furthermore, it is a kind of rewriting in which the silences in the
text are made to speak." So for instance she wonders what la maga in
one of Cortozar's novel _Rayuela_ might say to Horacio. She may have
spoken while having anal intercourse of her desires, to learn and to
read. She may have said that, "the sensation recalled the erotic
experience of defecating [I don't know if I will have breakfast just
yet] , and then perhaps of playing with her feces as a child, keeping
what she had made herself to play with and to smear, to control the way
she wanted to; that if her mother had not told her where to dispose her
feces, if she had been allowed to keep them instead of always fearing
that they would soil her clothes, get her dirty, like... but her mother
always discovered them. She might have felt ashamed to share her anus
with him, such a private part of her body. She might have despised him
for having anal intercourse with her, knowing that it could never
result in pregnancy." (p.36)
Ariosto



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