To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have gelded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savour the “pleasures of the flesh” only on condition that they be insipid.”

If you enjoyed Story of the Eye, you might like Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. Apparently he had a tragic childhood. Also apparently he gets thrown in with all of those other terrifying French thinkers like Baudrillard, Derrida, Barthes, Lacan and so on. But this novella was enough and too much for me. I have a naïve idea that eroticism and porn should in some way evoke pleasure in the reader. I know, I’m hopeless.

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of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Eyes feature in subsequent chapters. Eyes are opened as we readers progress. With each chapter, we are shown more and more institutional corruption, hypocrisy and violence: a family home, an insane asylum, a bull-fight, the Church. The narrator feels he is watched by the eyes of a dead woman. A bull-fighter loses an eye when gored by a bull. A dead priest has his eye removed with a scalpel. I wonder why it is such a big no-no with some people. What are they thinking? What do they want us to think? What if I read this book for the purpose of sexual arousal, but I didn’t get sexually aroused? Enough? There are some people that have different coloured eyes. The medical term for this condition is heterochromia iridium, it is quite rare in humans and is thought to be the result of an alteration to one of the genes that dominates eye colour. How the eye keeps itself clean

The Story of the Eyeis a fascinating psychological study and more so on a metaphysical level. The author was an anti-religionist; even so, spiritual questions arise. Are these characters demonically possessed? Insane? Sane in a crazed world?Blinking – the action of opening and closing the eyelids helps to keep the eye clean and lubricated. It is estimated that the average person blinks twelve times a minute. This book was unlike anything I had read, vividly graphic and subtly gross, yet engaging and literary at the same time. This American remake follows Naina, a Hindi movie released in 2005, that is also based on the Pang Brothers' film. [ citation needed] Filming [ edit ]

Bataille is interested in the solidity of objects and institutions, as well as their liquefication, their ephemerality. Whatever Simone objects to, she urinates on. It's a universal symbol of derision.you read the book but it is not a book, not really. it is a thesis. what is its purpose? to lay bare the world, i suppose. each act, each object, each symbol and metaphor... open to your own interpretation. come one, come all! cum! cum! cum! yawn. i know the world already. eye am a camera. Jessica Alba's performance was generally criticized as well; Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times called it "vapid". [7] Alba was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for the film. However, she won the Choice Movie Actress: Horror/Thriller award at the 2008 Teen Choice Awards for her performance in the film. That discourse one might call the poetry of transgression is also knowledge. He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don’t know.”

And now, please have a taste of Story of the Eye. You might like it, but don’t forget: it’s awfully repetitive. This is an extremely un-sexy story to read and it fascinated and disturbed me in equal measure. *swallows* Well, η Σιμόν η πρωταγωνίστρια προς το τέλος της ιστορίας ήθελε να της σερβίρουν ωμά αρχίδια ταύρου ενώ παρακολουθούσε ταυρομαχίες, τις θύμιζαν αυγά. Και μένα τα τέτοια του σκύλου μου, αυγά ορτυκιού μου θύμισαν. Rose : I hate to admit it, but my relationship with Miles is really getting boring. We even make love the same.

Our personal hallucination now developed as boundlessly as perhaps the total nightmare of human society, for instance, with earth, sky, and atmosphere.” In Simone's hairy vagina, I saw the wan blue eye of Marcelle, gazing at me through tears of urine. Streaks of come in the steaming hair helped give that dreamy vision a disastrous sadness. I held the thighs open while Simone was convulsed by the urinary spasm, and the burning urine streamed out from under the eye down to the thighs below… Book Genre: 20th Century, Adult Fiction, Classics, Cultural, Erotica, European Literature, Fiction, France, French Literature, Horror, Literature, Novels, Philosophy Rose: I guess it could take less if I stopped playing hard to get. THE GOLDEN GIRLS The Depths of Depravity Indeed, staring oneself blind on them would form a quite superficial reading of the text, and does it quite the disservice to my mind. I know this, because initially I was guilty of it myself. Mea culpa. The subtext, the philosophical underpinning someway, somehow escaped my notice, hidden as it was beneath the various, lurid descriptions of the pleasures of the flesh. In the spirit of full transparency I here offer the brief thoughts that I, in a state of slight disappointment scribbled down just moments after finishing the novella: