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A Reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille

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Catastrophe Lives Time

Catastrophe lived time must be represented ecstatically, not in the form of an old man, but as a skeleton armed with a sigh. As skeleton it is completely destruction, but armed destruction amounting to imperative purity. Destruction gnaws deeply and thus purifies sovereignty itself. In divine love the freezing gleam of a sadistic skeleton is infinitely unveiled. It's face distorted by amorous ecstasy, tears, from God his naive mask, and thus oppression collapses in the crash of time. The problem of the being of time can be elucidated in a disorder embracing the totality of conceivable forms.

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