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Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing." Bataille has been called a "metaphysician of evil," specializing in blasphemy, profanation, and horror.
Story of the Eye, written in 1928, is his best-known work; it is unashamedly surrealistic, both disgusting and fascinating, and packed with seemingly endless violations. It's something of an underground classic, rediscovered by each new generation. Most recently, the Icelandic pop singer Björk Guðdmundsdóttir cites
Story of the Eye as a major inspiration: she made a music video that alludes to Bataille's erotic uses of eggs, and she plans to read an excerpt for an album. Warning:
Story of the Eye is graphically sexual, and is only for adults who are not easily offended.
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Basically, a shallow little moan.I have a twittering fizzing sensation building in my ears. PLug in, touch keys, flicker, flicker. Words unreadable, unspeakable (don't speak them, breath into them, give them banal life!) divulged on this surface of a wirring surface...They hav'nt a beginning or end, flocks of letters and font in rzizomatic hoards , simply drifting to and fro. I send them migrating south where they'll sail and overshoot the mark, rushing on overhead...not honing birds, graceful, seeking. They have an impossible etiology. Quite frankly, and without gilded tongue, the internet has gone some way towards disproving the theory that an infinite number of apes, typing for an given amount of time, on a given number of type-writers (simian compatable, of course), will some day produce the works of Shakespeare, Melville, Pynchon, Myself. Smash this screen, go outside, and shout at an object. An object.