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Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Story of the Eye ...Andre Masson..book cover



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Cover sketch for George Bataille's Story of the Eye - first edition 1928 - André Masson



"And it struck me that death was the sole outcome of my erection, and if Simone and I were killed, then the universe of our unbearable personal vision was certain to be replaced by the pure stars, fully unrelated to any external gazes and realizing in a cold state, without human delays or detours, something that strikes me as the goal of my sexual licentiousness: a geometric incandescence (among other things, the coinciding point of life and death, being and nothingness), perfectly fulgurating..."


 George Bataille's Story of the Eye


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