Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 18:34:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: quetzil castaneda <quetzil-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Perversion


Omar, there was a call for suggestions on research on perversions, thought
you might like to offer some assistance?  they want to know what counts and
what does not....

regarding your ... piece:  was it a short story? or a chapter in that book
on the 2 guys who go down to banana rebuplic?

'cause as a short story, perhaps, I am tooo academic and not enough into the
arts; too many farts, without an art to understand the moment of sublime
that you were trying to attain.  I had too little context for the story and
I have too little context for fiction in general i guess.

sorry for my pedestrian, philistine, peasantish worldview here but...was da
point? 

q.

At 10:05 AM 6/5/96 +1200, you wrote:
>HI Blaine,
>
>wow, that sounds like a fascinating study. I personally am quite interested
>in disgust, which I would relate to perversion inasmuch as the object of
>'conventional' disgust is usually considered in some way perverse. I have
>found Kristeva's concept of the 'abject' of inestimable value here, as
>detailed in 'Powers of Horror'. And I think that Bataille forms a suitable
>adjunct to these ideas as well. Anyone who can say 'My father slaps me and I
>see the sun' just HAS to be mentioned in this context!
>
>Cheers,
>Grayson 
>
>Grayson.Cooke-AT-vuw.ac.nz
>
>
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