From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: The Nobility of Sadism and Depravity
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:48:00 -0500 (EST)


Shaheena,
 You are going mad, don't worry it will pass and then there is this
oasis full of sacred insects whose coulourings and camouflage abilities
are in excess of their survival or utilitarian value. No function
governs their telos. I have goodies from the library, scraps blowing
with the sand, a torned piece of that black hole of a cloth that you
see as hell happens to land in my hand--written on it is Caillois
fascination with the sadism of the Mantis religiosa, a way of giving
marvelous content to the little a like the sword and scissors. But turn
around in autoreference and you get the masochistic desire of Bataille. I
was reading the first part of the accursed share this morning and now
in the bataille reader he is writing that the festival or Maffesoli's
orgy for that matter, liberates not only animality but the sacred or
the negation of nature. Negation in this sense gives erotic value to
that which is pressed under through the seriousness of work and
prohibition. The festival shatters the ordinary rules and functions,
Bataille writes that it is "a leap into the unknown, with animality as
impetus." I don't have to talk to you but I want to and here is your
child playing around with a carnivalesque language swirling like
before and you are getting all upset for nothing just as I am waking up
again, you can't take advantage of me while I am this alert.

You fool,
Ariosto



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