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From: "Gary C Moore" <gottlos75-AT-mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Children of Albion/typo 
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 01:26:08 -0600


Dear Orpheus,
I appreciate your quotes from PRISONER OF LOVE. I wish you would give page
numbers and the edition you are quoting from. I have a copy but have not
read it. Maybe you could get my attention redirected toward Genet. I
originally stumbled on Genet's THE THIEF'S JOURNAL in a train station in
Florence and was fascinated. Then I read Sartre's SAINT GENET which I need
very much to re-read. I thought it was a very great . . . something, I don't
know what. I know Derrida seems to hate Sartre and his books from his
extremely obscure comments in GLASS. Can you shed any light on this? Sartre
(and Merleau-Ponty) gave a great deal to French philosophers like Levinas
and Derrida upon which to build their own structures of thought, even if
antagonistically, but they both seem rather ungrateful in the extreme.
Please disabuse me if I am wrong here. I've read OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS and
THE MIRACLE OF THE ROSE, which, along with THE THIEF'S JOURNAL, I found to
be not just intriguing in their style but, as in the very best purpose of
literature, giving living body to strange and new ways of thinking.
Unfortunately, I found his other novels disappointing. I've read his plays
which is possibly his most successful genre. I love THE BLACKS and found THE
SCREENS extremely strange, repulsive, and fascinating. I have always
wondered if the essay "The Funambulists" was based in some way on the
prologue to THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA. The last time I investigated the matter,
there was speculation, very slight and obscure, on where Genet received his
extensive education if he was spending all his time in reformatories and the
army. White's biography was useless on all of these issues as far as I could
get into it. Is it still true that Genet's essay/book on Rembrandt was
almost completely destroyed? The small slivers that survive are absolutely
fabulous. Did he ever write anything about his favorite book THE BROTHERS
KARAMAZOV?

'Sincerely'

Gary C. Moore

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Subject: Children of Albion/typo


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> They claim to give an account of it, but in fact it buries itself, slots
> itself exactly into the spaces, recorded there rather than in the words
> that serve only to blot it out. Another way of putting it:the space
> between the wods contains more reality than does the time it takes
> to read them. Perhaps it's the same as the time, dense and real,
> enclosed between the characters in Hebrew.
> _________________________________________
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> Prisoner of Love
>                 Jean Genet
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