>Okay, fine. Here's the intro to the grad seminar on early 20thC euro
>history, philosophy and political consequences....
Thanks. I just printed this out.
> I love the idea of Jean
>Genet as a boy fondling---too suggestive to be philosophy?
Sartre didn't think so. Did you hear the one about Genet high on Nembutal and dancing in a nightie for a group of Black Panthers?
>Sex and lots of it is the theme of this memoir,
>which is populated by familiar figures from the
>literary, artistic, and musical worlds. We read
>how Michel Foucault overdosed on LSD at the
>baths and how Edmund came and rescued him (he
>confesses that he considered himself to be
>Foucault’s dumb friend“but I thought hey, we
>all need one”); how Edmund cracked the rumor
>that Genet had once danced for the Black
>Panthers when Angela Davis confirmed for him
>that “Genet was the original gender-bender. He’d
>get high on Nembutal and dance for the Panthers in a pink negligee”;
http://www.glreview.com/issues/13.3/13.3-nickels.php