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From: quetzil castaneda <quetzil@xxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 18:34:07 -0500 (CDT)
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,
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>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!
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>Cheers,
>Grayson
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>Grayson.Cooke@xxxxxxxxx
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