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General Category => What Now? => Topic started by: Nation of One on June 12, 2018, 11:16:21 pm

Title: Satan have pity on my long despair!
Post by: Nation of One on June 12, 2018, 11:16:21 pm

Les Litanies de Satan (https://fleursdumal.org/poem/191)

Fleursdumal.org is dedicated to the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) and his poems Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil). The definitive online edition of this masterpiece of French literature, Fleursdumal.org contains every poem of each edition of Les Fleurs du mal, together with multiple English translations.

FleursDuMal.org (https://fleursdumal.org/)

Title: Re: Satan have pity on my long despair!
Post by: Holden on June 13, 2018, 03:51:14 am

"The street he was in ,did not lead up to the castle hill; it only made toward it and then, as if deliberately, turned aside, and though it did not lead away from the castle,
it led no nearer to it either."

Kafka

Title: Re: Satan have pity on my long despair!
Post by: Nation of One on April 22, 2022, 04:19:31 am

In Zamyatin's We, the protagonist, D-503, states that, "We is from God, I is from the Devil." (p129-130)

From Living Under the Bell Jar: Surveillance and Resistance in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We   (http://libgen.rs/scimag/?q=Amey%2C+Michael+D.+%E2%80%9CLiving+Under+the+Bell+Jar%3A+Surveillance+and+Resistance+in+Yevgeny+Zamyatin%3As+We.%E2%80%9D):

While The One State’s mechanisms of power are substantial, ultimately its attempts to foreclose the possibility of resistance through surveillance fail. This failure stems from the fact that some numbers do come to recognize their individuality. A doctor provides this explanation for the development of individuality in D-503, ‘You are in a bad way! Apparently a soul has formed within you’ (95). The process through which this individuality is realized in D-503 is in many ways similar to Jacques Lacan’s theory of the mirror-stage (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/#MirStaEgoSub).