On May 16, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
Whoops! The title of the book is 'Saint Genet, Comédien *et* Martyre."
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> On May 16, 2012, at 3:27 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> All you classicists....philosophers....catholics..... help.
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>> 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???
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>> 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.
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>> Medieval mysticism? Dostoevsky? Neitzche?
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> 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.
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> Shane Mage
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> "L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce
> qu'on a apporté."
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> Bardo Thodol
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