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A Reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille

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The Me That Dies

In the coming of death, there appears a structure of the me that is entirely different from the abstract me. Discovered not through an act of reflection reacting against all opposing limits, but through a logical investigation giving itself the form of its object in advance. It supposes at once the exigency and the limitless breakdown of imperative life. The consequence of pure seduction in the heroic form of the me attains the rending subversion of the God that dies.

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