“Nature, as if jealous of her gifts to us, often declares and makes plain the fact that she cannot leave us for long in possession of the little substance she lends us […] She needs it for other forms, she asks for it to be returned for other works.” (Bousset 1662, quot. Bataille 1962)
“I can tell myself that repugnance and horror are the mainsprings of my desire, that such desire is only aroused as long as its object causes a chasm no less deep than death to yawn within me, and that this desire originates in its opposite, horror.” (Bataille 1962)
but like, im a textbook definition sadist. of course I’m obsessed with the interplay-intercourse of sex and death.
too often you are unharmed but i won’t know if Bataille is gonna get into that if i keep getting distracted away from readin his book LOL
"You did and are unharmed!" he shouted, his blue eyes blazing into the black face with something like envy and indignation. Trueblood looked helplessly at me. I looked away. I understood no more than he. "You have looked upon chaos and are not destroyed!" "No suh! I feels all right." (Ellison 1952)
“it is clear from the outset that the two primary taboos affect, firstly, death, and secondly, sexual functions.” (Bataille 1962)
