Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:30:29 +1200
From: john.morss-AT-stonebow.otago.ac.nz (John Morss)
Subject: Re: Jump for Joy?


 >>Here is an excerpt from Deleuze's "J as in Joy":......
>> To complain -- a
>>little old man, someone in prison -- it's not sadness at all, but something
>>quite different, the demand, something in the complaint that is
>>astonishing, an adoration, like a prayer.....So, he continues, it's the
>>socially
>>excluded who are in a situation of complaint. <...>

that's really earth-shattering isn't it!

>>Then the great complaint is born....... And the complaint has this perfidious
>>side as well, as if to say: don't take on my complaint, don't touch me,
>>don't feel sorry for me, I'm taking care of it. And in taking care of it
>>for oneself, the complaint is transformed: what is happening is to
>>ooverwhelming for me, because this is joy, joy in a pure state...

I could have told you Vincent, this world was never meant for one as
beautiful as you...

sorry to be rude, but isn't this sentimental cr*p?




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