The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth. — GEORGES BATAILLE

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“Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).”
Georges Bataille, The Impossible (via sunwheel)

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bettyliang:

The Story of the Eye

drooling.

drooling.

“The night is my nudity
the stars are my teeth
I throw myself among the dead
dressed in white sunlight

Death dwells in my heart
like a little widow
she sobs she is a coward
I’m afraid
I could vomit

the widow laughs to the skies
and rips the birds to pieces”
Georges Bataille, I throw myself among the dead, from The Impossible, translation by Robert Hurley (via frenchtwist)
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next bataille installment, w/ some futurama sounds in th background. wearing thrifted & cut-up “I climbed the great wall” souvenir shirt, rag & bone high-waist jeans, oxblood braces, apple-print bra which is totally visible cause I am awful at cutting up shirts.

thinking about making a terrible donation-plea post, because I need $$ desperately for various things, mostly so I don’t have a nervous breakdown & partly so I can apply to graduate school. should I?

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I had to get up early today, so I finally did another Bataille reading. someone pay me to read audio books please please please!

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emperortomatoketchup: Cover sketch for Georges Bataille’s ‘Story of the Eye’ (first edition, 1928) by André Masson

emperortomatoketchup:

Cover sketch for Georges Bataille’s ‘Story of the Eye’ (first edition, 1928) by André Masson

rejectmediocrity: Georges Bataille. I’d hit that. hot damn, I’ve never come across this photo before! swoon & a half.

rejectmediocrity:

Georges Bataille. I’d hit that.

hot damn, I’ve never come across this photo before! swoon & a half.

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it will take ages to finish all of story of the eye, but I think I will try to keep it up. 

wearing my daisies-esque dress, a vintage ‘wedding’ dress that is uber-mini & has dodgy hems and other charmingly home-sewn details. w/ ripped black tights, gold leather belt, & you can see my robocop badge & crying blue moon pin. 

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I got th brill’ idea to recite all of Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye over video posts. It is long & pornographic (& th ending is th best part!) so let me know if I should keep this up.

wearing thrifted 90s gap mini shirtdress, worn when I can’t be assed to put something complex together; thrifted lavender belt w/ silver feather buckle; black tights; you can kind of glimpse my prized RoboCop pin on my lapel.

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