From: MFaizi5009-AT-aol.com Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:17:15 EDT Subject: Re: water and rock In a message dated 8/20/99 7:51:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jmcrouch-AT-email.msn.com writes: > I think the engendering of objects is what Bataille had in mind when he wrote > his pornographic novel(s). These ideas overflow into his philosophy, > economics, and aesthetics. His idea of excess is the idea of the erotic: it > is the ontological boundary of being crossed. The erotic is sex: the crossing > of female into male, male into female. How can sex or eroticism serve to cross the boundaries between male and female? Can a woman become more like a man through sexual activity? If this is so, then, should not more women be having sex more often? I doubt the possibility that a woman will become more masculine through eroticism. I think that it is much more probable that Bataille was fascinated with women and chose to have sex with a number of them on account of his horniness. I think that it is probable that he understood his feminine side much better than the masculine and that he chose to live his life largely based on this fact. >While the essay on Dali, "The > Lugubrious Game" (?), defines another set of erotic ideas, it follows this > pattern. > On male hardness: see Brecht's poem, "Iron" (?), where Brecht defines > himself as a tree. Rather than simply alluding to this poem of masculine hardness, I think that you should supply it. What did Brecht think of his masculinity? Was it something that he admired or wanted? Was it something that he deprecated? What caused you to think of it in relation to masculine hardness? Do you think of masculinity as a detriment or an asset? Faizi > JMC
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