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Originally Posted by Nefeli
do you mean 120 days of sodom by de sade or some other book?
had started to read that in my youth and decided to stop. had my reasons at the time.
complete Kane is the book that been meaning to read again and havent. its interesting to see the different effect, books have when you are in different state of mind. i remember not being shocked, it was emotional, it was making sense, but it was also very inspiring. am an idiot now and dont remember which play was the most inspiring for me.
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Yes, 120 days, this is what posting drunk does for one.
Sarah Kane is someone I absolutely adore - I don't really keep up with contemporary stuff, for various reasons, but she's one of the few that makes me wonder if there's a subterfuge of brilliance underneath a lot of well-meaning but ultimately inconsequential writing. Margeurite Duras (sp?) does the same.
Mr 2600 - I haven't read the Kierkegaard tome you mentioned; I have read Either/ Or, Fear & Trembling, The Concept of Dread, The Sickness Unto Death and had a drunk attempt at Concluding Unscientific Postscipt (which I need to re-read sober). So, uh, I was wondering why you'd put a 'minor' essay over some of his other stuff? I don't mean this in the sense that one must adhere stringently to the canon of Kierkegaard, but in the sense that I haven't read it and would like to know why I should (besides Kierkegaard being entirely perfect, of course).