Sartre - St. Genet

[meshaselimovic]

...in any society it is inevitable that the percentage - a variable one, be it added - of individuals find themselves placed, as it were, outside of any system, or between two or more irreducible systems. the group asks, even requires, that these individuals represent certain forms of compromise which cannot be achieved on the collective level,

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i am sofa king.

[lqdblckdrkvpr]

"to refuse enjoyment is the most exquisite enjoyment

Re: i am sofa king.

[meshaselimovic]

[about gaze] the reversal will thus consist in directing the eye of consciousness toward the appearance from in front and in emptying the consciousness of all concerns other than that of manifesting the handsome youngster. the reflective consciousness must fall back into the immediate consciousness and fade out there. for the reflective consciousness was a flashlight that searched the immediate consciousness with the aim of discovering the Other there. but it failed in its task and can produce only a paltry Ego.

this is where genet fails: reflective consciousness cannot observe Other. that is it, that is the point. everything else, i think he's done the way it is supposed to be done.