Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:23:45 EST
Subject: Re: [LaMystique] Millennial Slumber/forgiving is possible


In a message dated 1/4/00 2:10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
borealis-AT-mail.wellsgray.net writes:

<< 
 There is much that is mystical about George Bataille's writing.He claims to
 be a mystic. It is not easy finding this  in print though. I had found a
 site that has some writing of his in french. Much of his writing does not
 appear to be translated into english. I will look up the URL in the
 meantime. But it is not easy translating french for me. There are only two
 books in the university library here, two hours distance. So the void is 
wide. >>

For Bataille's more mystical side, I would recommend two of the 3 volumes 
from Bataille's La Somme atheologique: _Inner Experience_, tr. by Leslie Anne 
Boldt on SUNY Press and Guilty, tr. by Bruce Boone on Lapis Press.  Both 
should be readily available from one of those on-line booksites like B&N or 
Amazon.  Here is an interesting website: <A 
HREF="http://www.fringeware.com/subcult/Georges_Bataille.html">Click here: 
FringeWare, Inc. - Bio: Georges Bataille</A>.  There was a great site devoted 
to Acephale that has disappeared from the web.

A passage from Guilty relates directly to our discussion of fear: "I saw in 
the war something ordinary life lacked - something that causes fear and 
prompts horror and anguish.  I turned to it to lose my thinking in horror - 
for me, war was torment, falling off a rooftop, a volcano erupting.  I 
despise the boorishness of people drawn to the combat aspect of the war; it 
attracted me by provoking anguish" (56).

David