A Reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille
Acid Horizon
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The Pure Imperative of the Me That Dies
The me that dies raises itself to the pure imperative living, dying for an abyss without walls or floor. The imperative is formulated as die like a dog, in the strangest part of being. It abandons all applications in the world. Facing passion is no longer acceptance in realization of nothingness. Nothingness is still a cadaver. Brilliance is the blood that flows and coagulates. Just as the freed obscene nature of their organs, more passionately connects embracing lovers. So too, the nearby horror of the cadaver and the present horror of blood tie the me that dies more obscurely to an empty infinity. And this empty infinity is itself projected as cada
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