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" The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. "

Oops...I think that here, someone is attributed a faith ex - officio.

" Music itself is a derivative. It is simply the sonorous indicator of a break, of a deaf, mute, mortal and regenerative rythm. It takes place where the body is gashed by the blows of biology and the shock of sexual, social, and historical contradiction, piercing through the shield of the vocal and symbolic cover : " what a choral group the whole body let me stick my ear against your jaw..."

" Too late. The Renaissance was to revive Man and his perversion beyond the mother thus dealt with and once again rejected. Humanism and its sexual explosion, especially its homosexuality, and its bourgeois eagerness to acquire objects removed from immediate analysis the cult of natality and its real and symbolic consequences. "

" All of the most important polyphonic
novels are inheritors of the Menippean,
carnivalesque structure; those of Rabelais, Cervantes, Dostoievski, Joyce and Kafka. Its history is the history of the struggle against Christianity and its representation ; this means an exploration of language ( of sexuality and death ).The word " carnivalesque " lends itself to an ambiguity one must avoid. "

" At the very origin of narration, at the very moment when the writer appears,
we experience emptiness. We see the problems of death, birth and sex appear when literature touches upon this strategic point that writing becomes when it exteriorizes linguistics systems through narrative structure. On the basis of this anonymity, this zero were the author is situated, the he/she of the character is born. "

" Pour Beauvoir, la liberté est un " besoin indéfini de se transcender " qui " doit contester, en son propre nom, les moyens dont elle use pour se conquérir ".
Mais beaucoup confondent la liberté, inquiétude existentielle, avec le choix. Toute cette alchimie de valeurs, que nous avons construite et que nous avons crue acquise, reste encore à transmettre ".

Julia Kristeva, keep in' touch .

" In thirteenth century art, the prophets were contrasted with the apostles ; whereas in the fifteenth century, the four great evangelists were no longer set against the four prophets, but against the four fathers of the Latin Church ; Great literary compositions were no longer possible : the miniature replaced the cathedral, and the fifteenth century became the century of the miniaturists ;

" [...] this would establish poetic language as the object of linguistics' attention in its pursuit of truth in language. I shall call poetic language ( in which the dialectics of the subject is inscribed ) -that are screened out by ordinary language, social constraint. The term "poetry " has meaning only insofar as it makes this kind of studies acceptable to various educational and cultural institutions ".