Georges Bataille

Stuart Kendall

On Nietzsche

Imogen

[C]learly the “communication” of human beings is guaranteed by evil. Without evil, human existence would turn in upon itself, would be enclosed as a zone of independence: And indeed an absence of “communication” — empty loneliness — would certainly be the greater evil. 

“Communication” cannot proceed from one full and intact individual to another. It requires individuals whose seperate existence in themselves is risked, placed at the limit of death and nothingness.

With temptation … we’re crushed by twin pincers of nothingness. By not communicating, we’re annihilated into the emptiness of an isolated life. By communicating we likewise risk being destroyed. 

The ongoing whirling that composes you collides with similar whirlings, which form a vast figure driven by rhythmic restlessness. 

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