On May 16, 2012, at 3:27 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> All you classicists....philosophers....catholics..... help.
>
> I have a fuzzy dim recollection about some discussion about the
> purity of sin ....about the pure being unable to sin....some kind of
> paradox involving sin and purity. Saint Genet???
>
> I know I'm not making this up, but I just can't remember... it's a
> locus classicus of some kind. I just don't remember where it comes
> from.
>
> Medieval mysticism? Dostoevsky? Neitzche?
>
The reference is to a book by Jean-Paul Sartre on the ex-con, gay,
novelist/playwright Jean Genet(Les Noirs. Le Balcon, Querelle de
Brest, Pompes Funèbres, etc.); "Saint Genet, Comédien ou Martyre?" As
I've never read Sartre's book I can't he;p any further.
Shane Mage
"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on a apporté."
Bardo Thodol