File spoon-archives/bataille.archive/bataille_1999/bataille.9903, message 125


Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:19:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Marcus Wilker <marcus1-AT-vcn.bc.ca>
Subject: readings/personal experiences


p> Wou+8x3-c^iX-C-%5nld you be interested also in discussing the texts in
e-Rnchr_x 9b5drelation to<i!"X youu]Hr > personal experiences?
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Reading, for me, is already an intense personal experience, a place where
it happens, ... so there's an immediate yes along those lines but maybe
one that won't satisfy you.

What are the two sides of the relation:  a formal text that only speaks in
generalities vs the plethora of naked secrets that could be brought into
the light, in their shame, in their glory?  or a protestantism, the battle
cry "back to the text", in which a personal relationship through the text
is the only authority, vs a catholicism, in which there is more hierarchy,
but also more mystical goings-on?  or the human-rights insistence that
the personal be expressed vCFo_ne knows the text but does not
necessarily read
it? 


   

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