The Impossible

Are we talking to each other or objecting to each other?Impossible (1962) was originally released fifteen years earlier with the title: Hatred of Poetry. People adopt an attitude about things they hate that makes it difficult to have a productive discussion without falling into some secret code. When Haldeman mentioned the Bay of Pigs to Richard Helms after the Watergate break-in, Helms got so mad that Haldeman thought the Bay of Pigs must be a code for the assassination of JFK. Few people considered the Bay of Pigs a highly emotional matter on a personal level.I was 15 years old in 1962, so I think of bombing Cambodia as the kind of thing that needs a secret code. I was 23 years old when I spent a week in Cambodia in May, 1970, with a camera that captured a few pictures of where I was on the last day there, dampened by a rain that started on the night before.Impossible begins with the story of a rat. Being sick is part of the story, and it is so cold that a doctor who is supposed to deliver a letter on his way home stops for a drink and forgets to deliver the letter. Some brains need to write things down so they don't forget anything that is more important than what they desire most.Father A. and the father of B. are two characters in the story of the rat. Father A. has been trained in an irony to still his desires. Americans usually expect to adhere to some form of Christianity, even if a great god has them capture some transcendental ego in Cambodia that makes Vishnu of Lon Nol and Lon Nil. Understanding is a desire that cuts through the official position of those who think that only certain individuals have been authorized to speak to the public. Administrative law has a concept of standing to keep material fetish important in the way disputes are about something more concrete than mere doctrine.A major problem in the story of a rat is the bond between people who are objects of desire for each other. Imagination can make a lump in the snow come back to life if it has not yet frozen to death. Horror is a basic factor in literary life that makes the Bay of Pigs so typical of why secrets are supposed to be kept locked up tight and creative subjectivity responds most strongly to a self it can adhere to. American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas The book American Nietzsche examines ways in which Americans responded to reading Nietzsche. For the founders of the Black Panthers, Nietzsche helped them decide precisely what kind of pigs they should call the cops.

Wow, amazing. His thesis is that nothing is impossible, and so everything is possible, which is an impossibility. And so nothing is possible. Wow, hard core.

Bataille's anthropology is refreshing, but I can't get through his literature- it's just too dense and obscure, and seems very one dimensional. I read 50 pages of the book, and can't pick it up again. It's either too depressing, or too flat, or I'm just not getting what he's describing. Whether it's dada or surreal, I can't figure out. Maybe if I finish the whole thing I'd get the picture, or maybe not. Oh, well.

...in terms of unpredictability, uniqueness,confessional-poetic-mystic-debauchery andedge-thriving elan(some call it true amour)-- Bataille's work here as inLa Somme atheologique trilogy(GUILTY, ON NIETZSCHE, INNER EXPERIENCE)takes la frigging Cake!the last coolest Frenchman, 'e wuz!