From 6994bc39dbe562cde82bb34cc94e7061c1fb7492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: grr Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 23:02:08 -0400 Subject: a few more pages, also my keyboard broke --- body.tex | 349 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------- edenx3.tex | 126 +++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 255 insertions(+), 220 deletions(-) diff --git a/body.tex b/body.tex index 9d3c19e..9287f55 100644 --- a/body.tex +++ b/body.tex @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ dry river bed, cutting rhododendrons, milk from stalks mixing on knife-blades wi disembowelled in onyx-quarry against central vein ; soldiers cutting back, pulling up saplings, digging out roots with studded boots ; others kicking, swinging lopsided : camel-dung, grenades, eagle-carrion ; RIMA squad clambering into trucks, falling onto women, guns at sides, hardened % -% 2 +\crpage{2} members spurring violet rags clasped between women's thighs ; soldier, chest crushing baby sucking at breast, parting woman's hair pushed over eyes, stroking forehead with fingers covered in powdered onyx ; orgasm spurting saliva from mouth, dowsing baby's buttered scalp ; retracted member resting @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ haunches of males bent over unrolled tarpaulins ; RIMA squad pushing into den ho platform of camp in onyx vein ; faces heated, arms, legs swinging, bottles thrown against walls : glass splinters falling back into darkened circle pricking, sticking to hardened members shaken out of dungarees ; beer, wine --- cut with bromide % -% 3 +\crpage{3} --- splashing over shoulders, bare breasts of waiter ; RIMA squad rolling, vomiting in corners ; waiter, greasy shorts slipping down loins, barefoot, tattooed, on ankle, with woman's breast, trampling on floor-cloth ; edging around counter, pushing cloth alongside lips of vomiting soldiers @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ clenched teeth, rags covering, containing breasts of women, licking half-chewed youths ; soldiers, tugging at girls' naked legs ; father grabbing candle ; curly-haired soldier, rolling black meat in vermilion mouth, unsheathing dagger : soldier's hand, quick, covering vulva buried under scarlet rags, grabbing, pinching ; soldier pulling thigh, drawing sleeping girl % -% 4 +\crpage{4} closer : girl sliding over sand towards tent-flaps ; two soldiers, one scalped on temple by eagle's beak after rape over crowded nest, other sweating gall, dungarees rolled up over shins flecked with salt, holding down, tying up father throwing lighted candle at soldiers' hair ; curly-haired soldier @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ girl shifting belly under grinding muscles of abdomen ; blinding --- nails, spit woman pulled unconscious from tent : blond soldier, forehead glowering, tears bathing eye-sockets glazed with charcoal, urine blocking jissom in glans, squeezing woman held in arms ; \said{screw good ; fuck hard ; watch out for brass}, % -% 5 +\crpage{5} hands, lips, stroking, licking woman's contorted face thrown back over blond soldier's arm --- oil-smudged, wine-stained {\semislash} small girl, covered, coated with straw-dust --- except on lips, vulva blocked strangulating soldier's member --- whining, sniffing back bloody mucus into @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ exposed vulva, rag --- orange flowers, on violet --- sticking to groin ; soldier opened, heels lightened, saliva drying on chins ; tucking away members, buckling belts, wiping gnarled hands at sides, fingers coated with antimony from woman's hair ; farting ; leaning back against ladder of watchtower, feet nestling in urine-sodden sand, lighting cigarettes % -% 6 +\crpage{6} taken from pockets sticky with jissom, shifting haunches : glans, detached from cotton inside pants, discharging last drops of jissom ; farts rippling from sweating arses ; sentry squatting, arse hairs caked with faeces pulling apart, buttocks spreading, pressing nostrils over holes in floor ; scent @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ cold belly, groin muscles, tissues of member straining ; fist striking around vu on lips, digging, under folds, into stiffened muscles ; Peuhl unsheathing dagger at hips, tracing with point of blade --- bent : youths gutted against onyx wall --- semicircle around vulva, plunging blade into mute flesh, tearing, % -% 7 +\crpage{7} stripping, slicing muscles, nerves running from vulva into flaccid sheath covering strangulated member ; member hardened on contact with disturbed muscles, springing out, capped with bloody flesh ; Peuhl gathering, stroking, wiping member on flap of sweaty shirt ; standing up, leaning back @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ up, carrying soldiers to stretchers arranged outside, beside wall of hut, on tre on breast, whining, bloody saliva drooling from dried lips, two threads dripping onto chin ; cadet tearing off Peuhl's shirt, shirt thrown down at feet ; handkerchief in hand, thumb stroking, forcing Peuhl's lips, teeth : % -% 8 +\crpage{8} cadet's member stirring in pants {\ldots} \said{{\ldots}farting herdsman, dozing, loins stiffened from thrusting, pumping{\td} slender, running through drinn{\td} pimply mouth{\td}, hot bath, insecticide, tooth-comb never drawing out perfume of wool, of milk{\td} paste, potash, gonacrine on @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ onto bonfire of branches built around mouth of dead woman, blowing in measured b tall twisted locks sweeping over woman's breasts ; chest rubbing on fleece over vulva, skylark caught in tangled hairs ; lark singing, chest pressing against body of woman, tears springing from eyes ; hot blood trickling from ears ; excremental rain splashing over rock ; blood, in % -% 9 +\crpage{9} basin, burning, boiling ; young rebel, bare feet daubed with onyx powder, lips with flour, rising from earth, leaning over basin, immersed head, fists ; raising head dripping with blood, hurling raucous cry towards hills, bushes moving : lions springing out ; lions lying at rebel's feet, @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ carrying out girl swaddled in surgical smock, opening tents, in turn, tipping gi candlelight ; opening tent with two soldiers holding male, filled with sand heated through by movement of limbs clutching, sweating, radiance of muscular contractions ; cadet shoving soldiers aside --- standing, penis retracting beneath cotton % -% 10 +\crpage{10} {\dashcom} placing girl at feet of female, lighting candle taken from mouth of male, pushing unbuttoned soldiers towards opening of tent --- at corners of lips of female, drop of jissom shimmering {\semitrislash} in bunk-rooms, bamboo waving in dawn wind, insomniac soldiers, naked, @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ suspect in soiled rag pulled from under bedding ; fingers stroking small neck fo compressed member, junction of knotted membranes {\semitwoslash} suspect revived in empty guard-room, cadet kneeling, untying rag ; sentry, mouth rosy in dawn fire, walking on terrace, legs bowed, fist buried inside pants ; leaning back against palm-trunk propped up by % -% 11 +\crpage{11} brownstone balustrade around terrace ; stiffening legs, pulling out member ; rifle, loaders, clicking at loins, masturbating, helmet pushed back over neck, jugular vein outlined in creases of throat, tongue protruding from mouth ; two children squatting, defecating against barbed wire ; @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ floor-cloths, buckets, brushes, pressing forehead, knees, against concrete, repl goose stretched out beside boy, beak burrowing under armpit ; Wazzag lifting up goose holding neck, hand rubbing boy's nipple ; pulling bird out of box-room{\td} \said{just grabbing gobbler, Khamssieh, time for lame-duck to get good goosing{\td}} ; % -% 12 +\crpage{12} goose squawking, Khamssieh rolling over onto back ; mottled member bouncing out between thighs, springing up erect ; tongue lolling over lips ; clot of jissom trembling in nostril, blown onto fingers, Khamssieh rolling onto side, burying clot between buttocks ; jumble of rags piled against @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ Wazzag : {\td}\said{Rico, my flower{\td}} : soldier stepping onto terrace, away girl-whores, scratching dirt between toes with moistened thumb, Wazzag kneeling, fresh scent of insect-seed rising from leafy limbs, flicking dust from mop of hair dirtied in fatigue-parties, bivouacs, soldier hugging Wazzag between two rows of % -% 13 +\crpage{13} sheets hung out under reddening fire ; below. in women's brothel, noisy soldier with shaved head, bluish at temples, diving at black girl-whore --- thrown back against pink wooden stairs, crossing heels around soldier's ankles, over boots {\dashcolon} English box of love-powder, swapped in South @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ enveloping member, secreting balls, through tight denim ; saliva filling child's kissing child, child pushing saliva between teeth of whore : lubricator, flaps of unbuttoned denim jacket covering, brushing over Khamssieh's hips in movement of erection, buggering Khamssieh, sweaty chest sticking to boy's back {\slashsemi} flight of sand-% -% 14 +\crpage{14} larks swooping into alley, dancing over flock of sheep marked on forehead, ochre, red ; shepherds, poxy, resting --- animals shitting {\dashcom} slow watery gaze fixed on bars of women's brothel : free whores smiling at shepherds, foam shining on swollen lips, uncovering breasts ; shepherds' @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ lips, teeth, jaw, movement of sucking ; shepherds pulling small eggs from under wooden shutter behind grid ; head-shepherd, blowing into flute --- rising urges throbbing in throat, breath shaking in pipe {\dashcom} leading flock towards outer ring-road ; rear shepherds unhooking fingers from grid, picking up sticks, striking, tucking members into rags, % -% 15 +\crpage{15} shaking secreting balls assailed by flies ; top of street, old men, children, sleeping on steps of slaughterhouse strewn with skins, with bloody fleece ; black girl-whore pulling soldier with bluish temples up to foot of cradle ; soldier, hardened member swinging in half-light, licking pink wooden @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ of fly bulging at crotch ; pubic sweat seeping through denim, dampening leathere ; peasant youth's dilated nostrils drawing in, blowing out blood mixed with enamel dust ; shepherd squeezing nomad's thin thighs : scent of camel-dung rising from penis lifted up in shepherd's chapped hand ; shepherd placing % -% 16 +\crpage{16} lips on dry pubic fleece : line of sweat glistening along fold of thigh, shepherd grabbing encrusted balls in one hand, other masturbating short member --- tiny veins, stretched by erection, simmering against cheek ; nomad tensing legs ; jissom spurting, shepherd rolling back tongue into throat ; @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ covering negro village ; sheep butting naked babies propped against trellis-fenc fech-fech ; children, tickled by rubbing of wool, lying under bellies of sheep ; elbows pressing down, puffing out stomachs, rubbing against animals' nipples ; shepherds squatting at bottom of ravine opening into roaring wadi, masturbating, changing % -% 17 +\crpage{17} position on pebbles --- contraction of nerves, muscles, bringing kneecaps near breaking ; female sheep lifting penis of child leaning back against rusty metal urinal --- dragged from town centre during night of riots, by youths with knobbled skulls {\dashcom} licking fresh excrement splattered @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ shepherds, testicles squashed under buttocks against protruding bones of sheep, warm sand, tongues lolling over chins, panting, yelping ; rutting dogs rolling in wheat, snapping at dresses of women ; rolling in sand, snapping at members of shepherds ; russet dog licking girl's wound, running towards shepherds, rubbing % -% 18 +\crpage{18} against leg of shepherd with biggest member, pushing burning tongue between thighs ; tongue wrapping member ; dog's breath bathing shepherd's belly, foam running down thigh ; shepherd, stiffening legs against flanks of sheep --- dog surprised by muscles cracking, jumping aside : shepherd's lips @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ framework pegged to box-room wall, packed with stocks of jam, eggs {\dashcom} tw girl-whore squeezed against wall, abandoned --- squatting down, lifting cellophane, sucking up jam from one jar ; tongues touching in jelly{\td} \colsaid{{\td} Khamssieh, tongue never fit in jar{\ldots}} ; boy's raucous laugh resounding along partition, broken by smack of % -% 19 % TODO hamac -> hammock? +\crpage{19} % TODO hamac -> hammock? wet dishcloth on bare flesh{\td} \said{{\td} silence, arsehole, making me droop!} ; blond soldier drawing head of girl-whore towards crotch, picking up brush, combing thin hair on temples, eyebrows sticky with fresh jissom ; right arm of whore{\comdash} left holding member {\dashcom} hugging @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ thin blood{\td} monkeys whistling in cedars : I walk with Rico, naked, in front erect, cheeks tipped against shoulders, eyes narrowed, oh rebels, your bellies are light, your cheeks, daubed with paint{\ldots}} {\slash} Peasant sitting on bank of wadi, five teeth intact chewing % -% 20 +\crpage{20} mouse-carrion ; kneeling in mud, sucking up grey water swelling blood-spattered mouth, spitting red water back into stream, pulling penis from jeans, soaking, rubbing member under water, pressing torn fingers into folds of flesh{\ldots} {\slash} Khamssieh, lubricator's jissom streaming down legs, @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ rolling in slimy folds of Khamssieh's buttocks ; workers drawing back ; two date black child ; child diving at Khamssieh ; erect penis of whore pressing against sweaty torso ; arms squeezing Khamssieh's loins, head pulsating, heating, buried in thighs of whore ; blue spittle sticking % -% 21 +\crpage{21} down strands of Khamssieh's pubic hair ; child's tongue probing between curls, touching infected cuticle ; lubricator, emerging, buttoned up, from latrine, enveloped in cloud of excremental stench, rubbing against Khamssieh ; flick of tongue licking whore's lids, end of tongue holding lips @@ -740,48 +740,32 @@ to doorstep ; Wazzag wrapping raincoat around body, jumping on wet sand ; date-p apricot-branch crowning turban, tuft of shiny hairs sprouting from singlet, against neck ; eyes laughing through smoke ; wrinkles creasing under curly fringe on forehead ; body sweating, slumped % % 30 -lop-sided : {\ldots}{\gl} ..getting married this morning{\td} don't want girl's -parents see me get stiff for daughter{\ldots} get to work, sugar.{\gr} ; Wazzag -puffing on cigarette pulled from date-picker's lips ; undressing ; -pulling off clothes of date-picker shaken by slight laugh releasing : -perfume from mouth, droplets from tip of glans ; Wazzag positioning -behind date-picker, sniffing shoulders, nape, --- heated, embalmed -from hanging, in dawn fire, over core of swinging fronds in palm- -grove ---, rubbing member against worker's loins, laughing, -buggering arse ; without holding body : holding root of member in -both hands, hollowing loins ; ear-rings tinkling ; sweat shining on -bristly down over lips ; orgasm tugging at bluish curls of groin, skin -of pubis stretched, flushed pink in sleep, over muscles, bluish bones, -towards date-picker's arse ; sweat running down horizontal fold of -curved buttock ; Wazzag, with each orgasm, shaking heavy mop of -hair ; jissom flowing out onto thigh ; date-picker, bent over counter, -veiled eyes closing, tongue lolling between lips, mottled ; penis -hardening against zinc ; fifth orgasm : Wazzag, leaning over date- -picker's rump, kissing cheek ; belching, movement of loins : drawing -back from body ; wrinkled hand sliding over sweat cooling on back of -neck ; member hanging, softened, curved ; Wazzag pushing in front -of date-picker, pressing top of belly against counter, spreading -buttocks, placing date-picker's member into slit of arse, spine ;. ; -Khamssieh's leg, shaken by dream, pushing door of box-room ajar : -tarantula buried in spongy pubic clump, boy stretched out on side{\td} ; -{\slash} nomad undressing, throwing robe over shepherd's wrists held out, -wading into pool ; water running in hollow of hand ; lying in current, -loins supported on firm sand ; shepherd watering camels from -golden copper cup, sprinkling rest over rumps ; water streaming -around nomad's head submerged up to ears ; desert shimmering ; -yellow oilskins sweating, spread out on sand ; black soldiers of -border-post, crowding around pool, shoulder to shoulder, standing -lop-sided, propped on one leg, watching nomad bathing ; bare- -chested, loins hugged in thin shorts cut brief, members protruding, -flaccid, pink glans on smooth thighs, smoking dried tamarisk in long -% 31 -leaves ; post-commander, squatting in sand under embankment, -pressing baby-bottle of concentrated milk between teeth of gazelle -; group of nomads wrapped in long ashen robes, lying against wall -of sick-bay ; two soldiers, bellies squeezed in khaki woollen pants, -filling guerbas from water-spout ; bending from loins spittle foaming -at lips tying strings : pants sliding down over buttocks, exposing top -of mauve arse-slit seamed with fresh shit ; in corner of courtyard, +lop-sided : {\ldots}\said{{\td}getting married this morning{\td} don't want girl's parents see me +get stiff for daughter{\ldots} get to work, sugar{\td}} ; Wazzag puffing on cigarette pulled from +date-picker's lips ; undressing ; pulling off clothes of date-picker shaken by slight laugh +releasing : perfume from mouth, droplets from tip of glans ; Wazzag positioning behind date-picker, +sniffing shoulders, nape{\comdash} heated, embalmed from hanging, in dawn fire, over core of +swinging fronds in palm-grove {\dashcom} rubbing member against worker's loins, laughing, buggering +arse ; without holding body : holding root of member in both hands, hollowing loins ; earrings +tinkling ; sweat shining on bristly down over lips ; orgasm tugging at bluish curls of groin, skin +of pubis stretched, flushed pink in sleep, over muscles, bluish bones, towards date-picker's arse ; +sweat running down horizontal fold of curved buttock ; Wazzag, with each orgasm, shaking heavy mop +of hair ; jissom flowing out onto thigh ; date-picker, bent over counter, veiled eyes closing, +tongue lolling between lips, mottled ; penis hardening against zinc ; fifth orgasm : Wazzag, leaning +over date-picker's rump, kissing cheek ; belching, movement of loins : drawing back from body ; +wrinkled hand sliding over sweat cooling on back of neck ; member hanging, softened, curved ; Wazzag +pushing in front of date-picker, pressing top of belly against counter, spreading buttocks, placing +date-picker's member into slit of arse, spine {\semisplosion} Khamssieh's leg, shaken by dream, +pushing door of box-room ajar : tarantula buried in spongy pubic clump, boy stretched out on +side{\td} {\semislash} nomad undressing, throwing robe over shepherd's wrists held out, wading into +pool ; water running in hollow of hand ; lying in current, loins supported on firm sand ; shepherd +watering camels from golden copper cup, sprinkling rest over rumps ; water streaming around nomad's +head submerged up to ears ; desert shimmering ; yellow oilskins sweating, spread out on sand ; black +soldiers of border-post, crowding around pool, shoulder to shoulder, standing lop-sided, propped on +one leg, watching nomad bathing ; bare-chested, loins hugged in thin shorts cut brief, members +protruding, flaccid, pink glans on smooth thighs, smoking dried tamarisk in long % +% 31 TODO double check following page after due to weird pdf reader problem +leaves ; post-commander, squatting in sand under embankment, pressing baby-bottle of concentrated milk between teeth of gazelle ; group of nomads wrapped in long ashen robes, lying against wall of sick-bay ; two soldiers, bellies squeezed in khaki woollen pants, filling guerbas from water-spout ; bending from loins spittle foaming at lips tying strings : pants sliding down over buttocks, exposing top of mauve arse-slit seamed with fresh shit ; in corner of courtyard, women, sheltering under awning of stitched goat-skins, fondling premature baby smeared with tar, buried between thighs of pale girl, eyes closed, breast heaving ; camels, watered, rolling in sand, @@ -791,7 +775,7 @@ in the receding current, dozing, head resting against wooden groyne ; shepherd filling guerbas ; soldiers chewing sugar-lumps ; nomad opening eyes, sugar shining in soldiers' fists ; nomad licking lips ; rolling head in water, turning over onto belly, lifting lips out of water{\td} -:{\gl} .akli{\td} suck soldiers. get sugar. {\gr} ; sun drying blood suspended +\colsaid{{\td}akli{\td} suck soldiers{\td} get sugar{\td}} ; sun drying blood suspended in ginger curls of Khamssieh's armpits --- boy sleeping on side ; tarantula crawling from sticky pubic hair, climbing up onto whore's swollen belly, distended abdomen dividing blood over chest ; body of @@ -806,156 +790,115 @@ stifling sneeze, pulling legs together, suppressing shivers of body smeared with cold sweat moistening dried blood, beads of sweat glistening in fresh blood over loins ; nostril swollen with jissom squashing spider ; Wazzag exploding into laughter ; tarantula -Stinging nostril : venom, flowing with blood, veiling eyes of whore, +stinging nostril : venom, flowing with blood, veiling eyes of whore, softening eyelid ; Khamssieh's hand, weak, crushing tarantula in nostril : venom hardening forehead ; fingernails scraping cold blood % 32 -around nipples : pulling aead tarantula, pinching sticky legs, out of -nostril, pushing crushed spider between buttocks ; exhausted elbows -dropping onto heaps of floor-cloths : penis contracting into -shrivelled scrotum ; odour of sodomy wafting through room ; rubbing -of jeans, farts : regular in dawn silence ; whore-master buried in -hollow of mattress --- single imprint marking morning sheet : man -holding fast to boy, Wazzag, Khamssieh in turn, taken into bed each -evening ---, eyes closed, central seam of sheet pinched between -buttocks, eating sugar : whole body breathing covered by sheet -lifted, wetted in middle by erect member : arms of date-picker -squeezing Wazzag's waist, palpating hollow of belly beneath torso ; -fresh orgasm : date-picker flopping over rump of whore, hands -gripping ribs, rolling skin over bones of thorax : Wazzag, choking, -pulling away from zinc, unhooking date-picker's fingers ; damp -fingers of whore, fingers of date-picker entwined, worker's member -stiffening, squirting scant droplets ; fingers riding up over Wazzag's -breast into folds of neck --- head of whore bent over counter, breath -clouding zinc ---, twisting sweaty skin under chin planted with sparse -curls of blue hair trimmed short ; date-picker, hand wrapped around -Wazzag's throat, kissing mouth of whore at corner of lips, licking, -sucking up thread of foam smeared over gums --- neck throbbing -against date-picker's palm {\slash} ; Khamssieh moaning : nauseated by -workers' jissom mixed, bland, with saliva in mouth ; wrinkled penis -retracting into pubic fleece {\slash} ; date-picker's other hand grabbing, -Squashing Wazzag's hardening member against belly, palm hollowing -pubis, orgasm --- thread of blood-scented jissom streaming, without -Spasms, out of glans --- shining and crying through whole body of -date-picker ; youth rolling, fastened to whore, over strip of floor -along counter, pulling member from between Wazzag's buttocks, -Standing up, bare legs spread planted on one side, other side of -Tump of whore sprawling on belly, toes delving into hairs, under -armpits ; slow, stroking, with dusty heel, shoulder, neck, greasy curls -Over sticky nape, palpating balls against jissom-spattered thigh : -toes closing eyelids of whore against wood : {\td} {\gl} sleep, sunshine, +around nipples : pulling dead tarantula, pinching sticky legs, out of nostril, pushing crushed +spider between buttocks ; exhausted elbows dropping onto heaps of floor-cloths : penis contracting +into shrivelled scrotum ; odour of sodomy wafting through room ; rubbing of jeans, farts : regular +in dawn silence ; whore-master buried in hollow of mattress --- single imprint marking morning sheet +: man holding fast to boy, Wazzag, Khamssieh in turn, taken into bed each evening {\dashcom} eyes +closed, central seam of sheet pinched between buttocks, eating sugar : whole body breathing covered +by sheet lifted, wetted in middle by erect member : arms of date-picker squeezing Wazzag's waist, +palpating hollow of belly beneath torso ; fresh orgasm : date-picker flopping over rump of whore, +hands gripping ribs, rolling skin over bones of thorax : Wazzag, choking, pulling away from zinc, +unhooking date-picker's fingers ; damp fingers of whore, fingers of date-picker entwined, worker's +member stiffening, squirting scant droplets ; fingers riding up over Wazzag's breast into folds of +neck --- head of whore bent over counter, breath clouding zinc {\dashcom} twisting sweaty skin under +chin planted with sparse curls of blue hair trimmed short ; date-picker, hand wrapped around +Wazzag's throat, kissing mouth of whore at corner of lips, licking, sucking up thread of foam +smeared over gums --- neck throbbing against date-picker's palm {\slashsemi} Khamssieh moaning : +nauseated by workers' jissom mixed, bland, with saliva in mouth ; wrinkled penis retracting into +pubic fleece {\slashsemi} date-picker's other hand grabbing, squashing Wazzag's hardening member +against belly, palm hollowing pubis, orgasm --- thread of blood-scented jissom streaming, without +spasms, out of glans --- shining and crying through whole body of date-picker ; youth rolling, +fastened to whore, over strip of floor along counter, pulling member from between Wazzag's buttocks, +standing up, bare legs spread planted on one side, other side of rump of whore sprawling on belly, +toes delving into hairs, under armpits ; slow, stroking, with dusty heel, shoulder, neck, greasy +curls over sticky nape, palpating balls against jissom-spattered thigh : toes closing eyelids of +whore against wood : {\td} \said{sleep, sunshine, % % 33 -you've dried me out. {\gr} ; Wazzag rolling head over arm --- soft hairs -shining, plastered down by jissom ---, other arm dragging over floor -up to bare foot of date-picker buttoning jeans : Wazzag's fingers -stroking date-picker's toe-nails, slipping between phalanges, -rubbing, sticky, sugared grime ; laugh shaking shoulders, loins of -whore ; sun striking amber mass of buttocks coated with jissom, -jissom sticking date-picker's pubic curls to whore's reddened coccyx -; Wazzag rolling onto side, thread of jissom flowing down fold of -squashed buttock, onto floor, spread out over wood by movement of -sliding back buttock ; Wazzag's palm enveloping date-picker's foot, -date-picker freeing foot, kicking back against Wazzag's chest ; whore -grabbing, licking foot, sucking up sugary grime trapped under nails, -nibbling cracked nail ; heel of foot, jerking, bending back, covered in -saliva, onto cheek ; jeans, stuck to limbs by jissom, seam cutting into -buttocks, into layer of excrement, threads of denim pulling apart --- -over mound of right buttock --- distended, in front, by hardened -penis ; erection lifting upper flap of fly --- lower flap stuck against -fold of groin --- ; through gluey opening, Wazzag --- sitting up, hand -squashing date-picker's foot against floor ---, poking dusty muzzle : -tongue pulling testicles back under erect member, nostrils sniffing up -jissom from curls, ear palpitating rolled into sticky folds of jeans, -over thigh ; forehead marked by buttons of fly ; date-picker scraping -itchy scalp ; gust of wind rattling window-pane ; Wazzag gulping -date-picker's testicles, tightening teeth around root ; hand hooked -over date-picker's buttock ; Wazzag's arse perched on heel of foot. -toe-nails catching glans ; date-picker sliding fat fingers through -Wazzag's hair ; member curved over arched eyebrows of whore, -softening, brushing --- drooping down --- over Wazzag's eyelashes -; whore gulping balls, tongue gathering up date-picker's member ; -date-picker kicking at Wazzag's chest ; whore knocked over. -sprawling on back, legs spread ; date-picker buttoning jeans. -Pressing foot against Wazzag's chest ; shaken by laugh : date-picker. -chin squashed into folds of neck, eyes open pressing down into -lower eyelids, forehead bent forward, cheeks swollen, mouth hanging +you've dried me out.} ; Wazzag rolling head over arm --- soft hairs shining, plastered down by +jissom {\dashcom} other arm dragging over floor up to bare foot of date-picker buttoning jeans : +Wazzag's fingers stroking date-picker's toe-nails, slipping between phalanges, rubbing, sticky, +sugared grime ; laugh shaking shoulders, loins of whore ; sun striking amber mass of buttocks coated +with jissom, jissom sticking date-picker's pubic curls to whore's reddened coccyx ; Wazzag rolling +onto side, thread of jissom flowing down fold of squashed buttock, onto floor, spread out over wood +by movement of sliding back buttock ; Wazzag's palm enveloping date-picker's foot, date-picker +freeing foot, kicking back against Wazzag's chest ; whore grabbing, licking foot, sucking up sugary +grime trapped under nails, nibbling cracked nail ; heel of foot, jerking, bending back, covered in +saliva, onto cheek ; jeans, stuck to limbs by jissom, seam cutting into buttocks, into layer of +excrement, threads of denim pulling apart --- over mound of right buttock --- distended, in front, +by hardened penis ; erection lifting upper flap of fly --- lower flap stuck against fold of groin +{\dashsemi} through gluey opening, Wazzag --- sitting up, hand squashing date-picker's foot against +floor {\dashcom} poking dusty muzzle : tongue pulling testicles back under erect member, nostrils +sniffing up jissom from curls, ear palpitating rolled into sticky folds of jeans, over thigh ; +forehead marked by buttons of fly ; date-picker scraping itchy scalp ; gust of wind rattling +window-pane ; Wazzag gulping date-picker's testicles, tightening teeth around root ; hand hooked +over date-picker's buttock ; Wazzag's arse perched on heel of foot, toenails catching glans ; +date-picker sliding fat fingers through Wazzag's hair ; member curved over arched eyebrows of whore, +softening, brushing --- drooping down --- over Wazzag's eyelashes ; whore gulping balls, tongue +gathering up date-picker's member ; date-picker kicking at Wazzag's chest ; whore knocked over, +sprawling on back, legs spread ; date-picker buttoning jeans, pressing foot against Wazzag's chest ; +shaken by laugh : date-picker, chin squashed into folds of neck, eyes open pressing down into lower +eyelids, forehead bent forward, cheeks swollen, mouth hanging % % 34 -loose. following awkward movements of fingers in buttonholes, -Wazzag, skin of torso rolled over bones by date-picker's foot, biting -into fist ; date-picker, from pile of bodies heaped against door, -picking up, flinging espadrilles onto Wazzag's belly, leaning, -balancing, slipping shoes onto feet against suffocating body : -standing up, pulling sticky coin from jeans, throwing coin onto thigh -of whore --- ; squatting down in latrine ; Wazzag wiping, with back of -hand, face smeared with jissom up to forehead ; lower lip jutting out -: blowing away pubic curls of date-picker caught in eyebrows ; -standing up ; smearing gobs of jissom, with both hands open flat, -over belly, sides of thighs ; jumping over counter, stepping into box- -room, pushing foot between Khamssieh's thighs --- under genital -cluster ---, straightening up, looking at face, neck, in tarnished -mirror hung over shelves ; Khamssieh groaning, squeezing Wazzag's -heel between thighs ; Wazzag's big toe curling up against membrane -of arse ; Wazzag lifting arms, propping elbows on shelf : light fart -rippling over slimy slope of buttocks ; finger scraping at jissom -plastered over blue eyebrows, finger-nail piercing abscess formed -during copulation, under lips of date-picker, on throat of whore; -wrinkles of forehead, folds formed on sides of eye-sockets showing -marks of date-picker's fingers ; Khamssieh's sexual cluster sticking -to Wazzag's foot ; Wazzag squatting down, genitals spreading over -Khamssieh's knee, hand stroking belly of whore, sliding over fold of -groin, delving between thighs, seizing, lifting, pulling genital cluster -up against belly ; Wazzag, kneeling down, lying on top of Khamssieh -kissing mouth, nostril : {\gl} {\td} Wazzo, men thumping on counter : throw -cloth over my thighs ; tears, not jissom, boiling in my belly, -tarantula's venom freezing my blood : pull feet, pull me into sun ; -tarantula jumps onto killer at source of pain : tarantula crawled from -butcher's cock onto mine{\td} {\gr} ; Wazzag standing, pulling Khamssieh by -feet, underneath window ; tears bathing Wazzag's bloody face : blue -eye fixed in violaceous socket ; Wazzag throwing floor-cloth over -Khamssieh's thighs ; through window, head smudged with grease -Popping up, body propped against wall ; shaved scalp, bluish, framed +loose, following awkward movements of fingers in buttonholes, Wazzag, skin of torso rolled over +bones by date-picker's foot, biting into fist ; date-picker, from pile of bodies heaped against +door, picking up, flinging espadrilles onto Wazzag's belly, leaning, balancing, slipping shoes onto +feet against suffocating body : standing up, pulling sticky coin from jeans, throwing coin onto +thigh of whore {\dashsemi} squatting down in latrine ; Wazzag wiping, with back of hand, face +smeared with jissom up to forehead ; lower lip jutting out : blowing away pubic curls of date-picker +caught in eyebrows ; standing up ; smearing gobs of jissom, with both hands open flat, over belly, +sides of thighs ; jumping over counter, stepping into box-room, pushing foot between Khamssieh's +thighs --- under genital cluster {\dashcom} straightening up, looking at face, neck, in tarnished +mirror hung over shelves ; Khamssieh groaning, squeezing Wazzag's heel between thighs ; Wazzag's big +toe curling up against membrane of arse ; Wazzag lifting arms, propping elbows on shelf : light fart +rippling over slimy slope of buttocks ; finger scraping at jissom plastered over blue eyebrows, +finger-nail piercing abscess formed during copulation, under lips of date-picker, on throat of whore +; wrinkles of forehead, folds formed on sides of eye-sockets showing marks of date-picker's fingers +; Khamssieh's sexual cluster sticking to Wazzag's foot ; Wazzag squatting down, genitals spreading +over Khamssieh's knee, hand stroking belly of whore, sliding over fold of groin, delving between +thighs, seizing, lifting, pulling genital cluster up against belly ; Wazzag, kneeling down, lying on +top of Khamssieh kissing mouth, nostril \colsaid{{\td} Wazzo, men thumping on counter : throw cloth +over my thighs ; tears, not jissom, boiling in my belly, tarantula's venom freezing my blood : pull +feet, pull me into sun ; tarantula jumps onto killer at source of pain : tarantula crawled from +butcher's cock onto mine{\td}} ; Wazzag standing, pulling Khamssieh by feet, underneath window ; +tears bathing Wazzag's bloody face : blue eye fixed in violaceous socket ; Wazzag throwing +floor-cloth over Khamssieh's thighs ; through window, head smudged with grease popping up, body +propped against wall ; shaved scalp, bluish, framed % % 35 -square ; mouth, wide open, exposing shining teeth, saliva flowing, -held back by purple tongue : {\gl} {\td} fuck you through wall, dog. {\gr} ; -breath of panel-beater blowing out adobe-dust ; {\ldots}. {\slash} eyes, teeth -biting into high mouth, high throat of whore scratching chest, biting -at straining member, hardened balls {\slash} {\ldots}. ;: panel-beater pulling head -back, arm reaching through window towards Wazzag's throat -Wazzag, hips cocked sideways, head tipped down onto shoulder, -straightening up, grabbing hand of panel-beater, turning palm over, -kissing hollow, fists squeezing, pushing worker's hand down towards -thigh, onto folds of flesh under testicles : panel-beater's hand -sweating, contracting in Wazzag's fist ; whore releasing hand, -jumping backwards ; panel-beater spitting : spit splashing whore's -belly ; Wazzag leaning back against shelves, chin buried in folds of -neck, spreading spittle through pubic fleece, back under balls ; -mouth chewing cigarette-end pulled from lips of date-picker ; sexual -cluster, dripping with saliva, shining in half-light ; Wazzag bounding -out of box-room, double-locking door, climbing up stairs to bedroom -of whore-master, throwing key onto bed ; whore-master, naked. -pissing through window ; Wazzag's hand, quick, stroking sheer -surface of master's buttocks : trace of dried jissom trailing from -between buttocks down behind knee ; Wazzag crouching, licking -trace from source to point of interruption ; leg shuddering ; jet of -urine shimmering in rays ; standing in alley, slumping against door, -panel-beater licking hand embalmed in Wazzag's seminal scent ; -Wazzag kissing shuddering leg ; whore-master shaking, stretching -penis, wiping fingers on Wazzag's hair ; Wazzag's tongue gathering -master's member, drawing organ into mouth ; droplets dripping -around whore's chin, nostrils ; member swelling in mouth : {\gl} .. -enough, I have Khamssieh{\td} panel-beater down below{\td} quick, go clap -his arse. {\gr} ; Wazzag, strangled, choking, spitting scant mucus onto -glans : {\gl} {\td} he'll clip my wings{\fourdots} you seen his face ?{\td}{\gr}, chewing --- -after speaking ---, swallowing mucus ; licking glans, pushing tip of -tongue between tiny lips of member held horizontal in front of wide- -open mouth ; foam rising between teeth, escaping from corners of -% 36 +square ; mouth, wide open, exposing shining teeth, saliva flowing, held back by purple tongue +\colsaid{{\td} fuck you through wall, dog.} ; breath of panel-beater blowing out adobe-dust ; +{\fourdots} {\slash} eyes, teeth biting into high mouth, high throat of whore scratching chest, +biting at straining member, hardened balls {\slash} {\fourdots} ; panel-beater pulling head back, +arm reaching through window towards Wazzag's throat Wazzag, hips cocked sideways, head tipped down +onto shoulder, straightening up, grabbing hand of panel-beater, turning palm over, kissing hollow, +fists squeezing, pushing worker's hand down towards thigh, onto folds of flesh under testicles : +panel-beater's hand sweating, contracting in Wazzag's fist ; whore releasing hand, jumping backwards +; panel-beater spitting ; spit splashing whore's belly ; Wazzag leaning back against shelves, chin +buried in folds of neck, spreading spittle through pubic fleece, back under balls ; mouth chewing +cigarette-end pulled from lips of date-picker ; sexual cluster, dripping with saliva, shining in +half-light ; Wazzag bounding out of box-room, double-locking door, climbing up stairs to bedroom of +whore-master, throwing key onto bed ; whore-master, naked. pissing through window ; Wazzag's hand, +quick, stroking sheer surface of master's buttocks : trace of dried jissom trailing from between +buttocks down behind knee ; Wazzag crouching, licking trace from source to point of interruption ; +leg shuddering ; jet of urine shimmering in rays ; standing in alley, slumping against door, +panel-beater licking hand embalmed in Wazzag's seminal scent ; Wazzag kissing shuddering leg ; +whore-master shaking, stretching penis, wiping fingers on Wazzag's hair ; Wazzag's tongue gathering +master's member, drawing organ into mouth ; droplets dripping around whore's chin, nostrils ; member +swelling in mouth \colsaid{{\td}enough, I have Khamssieh{\td} panel-beater down below{\td} quick, go +clap his arse.} ; Wazzag, strangled, choking, spitting scant mucus onto glans \colsay{{\td}he'll +clip my wings{\fourdots} you seen his face ?{\td}}, chewing --- after speaking {\dashcom} swallowing +mucus ; licking glans, pushing tip of tongue between tiny lips of member held horizontal in front of +wide-open mouth ; foam rising between teeth, escaping from corners of +\crpage{36} lips : whore-master laughing, knee kicking Wazzag's throat ; head of whore thumping wooden frame of bed ; whore-master sitting on edge of bed, gripping head between thighs ; beneath master's fingers, bump forming under Wazzag's hair : {\gl} {\td} panel-beater will straighten -you out, Wawa. {\gr} ; whore-master wiping dusty hips of Wazzag -standing up : {\gl} {\td} Khamssieh all dried up{\td} stung by tarantula. {\gr} ; +you out, Wawa. {\gr} ; whore-master wiping dusty hips of Wazzag standing up : {\gl} {\td} Khamssieh all dried up{\td} stung by tarantula. {\gr} ; whore-master sprawling, legs spread, on bed, burying head in pillow : {\gl} {\td} jissom comes back before dawn{\td} careful of butchers, butchers' lads, tarantulas love to nest in beams over vapours of blood{\ldots} after diff --git a/edenx3.tex b/edenx3.tex index 4cc41ec..975f0f7 100644 --- a/edenx3.tex +++ b/edenx3.tex @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ \newcommand{\comdash}{, ---} % --- ; \newcommand{\dashsemi}{--- ;} +% ;/ ; "wtf?" +\newcommand{\semisplosion}{;. ;} % open speech \newcommand{\gl}{ @@ -50,6 +52,9 @@ % speech, prefixed by colon \newcommand{\colsaid}[1]{: \said{#1}} +% put corresponding creation ph in margin +\newcommand{\crpage}[1]{\marginpar{#1}} + \begin{document} \graphicspath{{img/}} @@ -85,22 +90,84 @@ Translated by Graham Fox Design: the Tears Corporation } - \clearpage -\chapter{Introduction} +\chapter{Salitter Workings Editorial Comment} -Pierre Guyotat's legendary novel of atrocity and extreme obscenity, \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden}, finally appears in English. Set in the dirt of a majestically tainted zone of the Algerian desert in a time of civil warfare, Guyotat's novel brings scenes of brutal violence into intimate collision with relentless acts of prostitutional sex and degradation. \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} was banned as \enquote{pornographic} by the French Ministry of the Interior on its publication and remained under governmental censorship for eleven years. The book is a courageous and unique exploration into the virulent matter of sex, language and the human body. It is lethal, and it has no precedent. Guyotat has declared: \textquote{The very origin of the whole system of literature has to be attacked.} +i have made Decisions, here. i do not own a copy of Eden Eden Eden. i do not own a creation edition +of Eden Eden Eden, and i fucking certainly do not own a copy of the vauxhall \& company edition. i +actually did, once! i got it from mark harwood's record label website thing. i gave it to a friend +as a present, under strange circumstances\ldots it was an odd gesture, but i'm fairly awkward, i +guess\ldots now they cost \$500. -Guyotat is a reviled and revered figure in France. His books have astonished and appalled their readership with their raw physical power. He has been acclaimed as the only writer alive who is creating a new language. He has said: \textquote{There is something inside me that makes it necessary for me to go further, always further into aberration.} -Guyotat was born in 1940 in a remote mountainous region of southern France. He has written obsessively from his first years. As a child, he masturbated constantly while writing, and his first manuscripts (as he narrates in his \enquote{seminal} text of the early 1970s, \booktitle{The Language Of The Body}) are extraordinary visual coagulations of semen, ink, dirt and blood. As a teenager, he became a soldier in the Algerian colonial war, and was arrested for inciting soldiers to desert and kept imprisoned for three months in a hole in the ground. His first celebrated book, Tomb For 500,000 Soldiers (also published by Creation Books) is a hallucinatory account of the terror and ecstasy provoked by that genocidal war, the memory of which has been suppressed in France. \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} was written in an intense six month period in a concrete highrise in the desolate suburbs of southern Paris. -Over the last twenty years, Guyotat has written incessantly but has published only one novel, \booktitle{The Book}. This astonishing work compacts all the cruelty and exhilaration of Guyotat's early work into a monstrous abjection of language, stripped to the infected bone, viral and skeletal. The writing of \booktitle{The Book} and his subsequent work, \booktitle{The Story Of Samora Machel}, almost killed Guyotat. At the end of 1981 he was living the creation of his language with such obsessionality that he gave up eating, lost half his body weight and was rushed to hospital and resuscitated from a coma that was almost fatal. Since then, Guyotat has worked on preparing the manuscript of Samora Machel for publication and begun an immense new work which is now nearing completion, Progenitor. Every three or four years, Guyotat gives a series of readings in the basement of the Pompidou Centre in Paris --- partly improvisations and partly a delivery of raw work in progress, these performances leave their audiences unforgettably scorched and lacerated by Guyotat's language. He has also given readings at events around the work of the only two writers whose vision in any way approaches the extremity and the dissidence of his own: Antonin Artaud and Jean Genet. +\signoff{phoebe} +\signoffnote{brooklyn 2024} + +\clearpage -\booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} is a delirious and exhausting book to experience: it propels its reader into itself with fury and adrenalized elation. The hero of the book is a teenage Algerian prostitute boy, Wazzag, who participates in a series of sex acts which constantly escalate in scale, intensity and number. The book stinks of sperm and killing. It is a malignant orgasm. It is the perfect book for contemporary Europe. Guyotat's language is welded into a headlong rush into the wild terrain of obscenity. He has commented: \textquote{Pornography is certainly more beautiful than eroticism. I say three cheers for pornography!} Like Antonin Artaud, Guyotat views the act of writing as a physical secretion --- a feral exudation of the body's material, creatively expectorating deadly substances which are savage and interrogative in their visceral impact upon the reader. And like Artaud, Guyotat speaks with blunt and sensational desire, against the bogus apparition of society and its paralysed languages. The action of writing, in \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden}, becomes a disciplined intervention which cracks censorship wide open in all its horror. +\chapter{Introduction} -On the publication of \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden}, Roland Barthes wrote that Guyotat's book literally constituted a historical shock. The writer Philippe Sollers said that nothing had been done that risked so much since the novels of the Marquis de Sade. Pierre Guyotat has relentlessly beaten the comatose, catatonic nature of language into an anatomical matter of writing. Pierre Guyotat is the most original writer alive, and this is his most livid, atrocious book. It will derange you and it will scar you. +Pierre Guyotat's legendary novel of atrocity and extreme obscenity, \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden}, +finally appears in English. Set in the dirt of a majestically tainted zone of the Algerian desert in +a time of civil warfare, Guyotat's novel brings scenes of brutal violence into intimate collision +with relentless acts of prostitutional sex and degradation. \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} was banned as +\enquote{pornographic} by the French Ministry of the Interior on its publication and remained under +governmental censorship for eleven years. The book is a courageous and unique exploration into the +virulent matter of sex, language and the human body. It is lethal, and it has no precedent. Guyotat +has declared: \textquote{The very origin of the whole system of literature has to be attacked.} + +Guyotat is a reviled and revered figure in France. His books have astonished and appalled their +readership with their raw physical power. He has been acclaimed as the only writer alive who is +creating a new language. He has said: \textquote{There is something inside me that makes it +necessary for me to go further, always further into aberration.} + +Guyotat was born in 1940 in a remote mountainous region of southern France. He has written +obsessively from his first years. As a child, he masturbated constantly while writing, and his first +manuscripts (as he narrates in his \enquote{seminal} text of the early 1970s, \booktitle{The +Language Of The Body}) are extraordinary visual coagulations of semen, ink, dirt and blood. As a +teenager, he became a soldier in the Algerian colonial war, and was arrested for inciting soldiers +to desert and kept imprisoned for three months in a hole in the ground. His first celebrated book, +Tomb For 500,000 Soldiers (also published by Creation Books) is a hallucinatory account of the +terror and ecstasy provoked by that genocidal war, the memory of which has been suppressed in +France. \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} was written in an intense six month period in a concrete highrise +in the desolate suburbs of southern Paris. + +Over the last twenty years, Guyotat has written incessantly but has published only one novel, +\booktitle{The Book}. This astonishing work compacts all the cruelty and exhilaration of Guyotat's +early work into a monstrous abjection of language, stripped to the infected bone, viral and +skeletal. The writing of \booktitle{The Book} and his subsequent work, \booktitle{The Story Of +Samora Machel}, almost killed Guyotat. At the end of 1981 he was living the creation of his language +with such obsessionality that he gave up eating, lost half his body weight and was rushed to +hospital and resuscitated from a coma that was almost fatal. Since then, Guyotat has worked on +preparing the manuscript of Samora Machel for publication and begun an immense new work which is now +nearing completion, Progenitor. Every three or four years, Guyotat gives a series of readings in the +basement of the Pompidou Centre in Paris --- partly improvisations and partly a delivery of raw work +in progress, these performances leave their audiences unforgettably scorched and lacerated by +Guyotat's language. He has also given readings at events around the work of the only two writers +whose vision in any way approaches the extremity and the dissidence of his own: Antonin Artaud and +Jean Genet. + +\booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} is a delirious and exhausting book to experience: it propels its reader +into itself with fury and adrenalized elation. The hero of the book is a teenage Algerian prostitute +boy, Wazzag, who participates in a series of sex acts which constantly escalate in scale, intensity +and number. The book stinks of sperm and killing. It is a malignant orgasm. It is the perfect book +for contemporary Europe. Guyotat's language is welded into a headlong rush into the wild terrain of +obscenity. He has commented: \textquote{Pornography is certainly more beautiful than eroticism. I +say three cheers for pornography!} Like Antonin Artaud, Guyotat views the act of writing as a +physical secretion --- a feral exudation of the body's material, creatively expectorating deadly +substances which are savage and interrogative in their visceral impact upon the reader. And like +Artaud, Guyotat speaks with blunt and sensational desire, against the bogus apparition of society +and its paralysed languages. The action of writing, in \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden}, becomes a +disciplined intervention which cracks censorship wide open in all its horror. + +On the publication of \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden}, Roland Barthes wrote that Guyotat's book literally +constituted a historical shock. The writer Philippe Sollers said that nothing had been done that +risked so much since the novels of the Marquis de Sade. Pierre Guyotat has relentlessly beaten the +comatose, catatonic nature of language into an anatomical matter of writing. Pierre Guyotat is the +most original writer alive, and this is his most livid, atrocious book. It will derange you and it +will scar you. \plainbreak{2} @@ -109,15 +176,40 @@ On the publication of \booktitle{Eden Eden Eden}, Roland Barthes wrote that Guyo \chapter{Preface} -\booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} is a free text: free of all subjects, of all objects, of all symbols, written in the space (the abyss or blind-spot) where the traditional constituents of discourse (the one who speaks, the events recounted, the way they are expressed) would be superfluous. The primary consequence is that criticism, unable to discuss the author, his subject, or his style, can find no way of taking hold of this text: Guyotat's language must be \enquote{entered}, not by believing it, becoming party to an illusion, participating in a fantasy, but by writing the language with him in his place, signing it along with him. - -Getting in on the language, in the sense of \enquote{getting in on the act}, is possible because Guyotat produces not a manner, a genre, a literary object, but a new element (which might even be added to the four Elements of cosmogony); this element is the phrase: substance of speech with the qualities of a fine cloth or a foodstuff, a single sentence which never ends, whose beauty comes not from it refers to (the reality towards which it is supposed to point) but from its breath, cut short, repeated, as if the author were trying to show us not a series if imaginary scenes, but the scene of language, so that the model of this new mimesis is no longer the adventure of some hero, but the adventure of the signifier itself: what becomes of it. - -\booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} constitutes (or ought to constitute) a sort of eruption, a historical shock: the whole of an earlier evolution of writing, seemingly double but coinciding in ways we can now see more and more clearly, from Sade to Genet, from Mallarme to Artaud, is gathered up, displaced, purified of its historical circumstances: no Story and no Sin (surely the same thing), we are left simply with language and lust, not the former expressing the latter, but the two bound together in a reciprocal metonymy, indissoluble. - -The strength of this metonymy, sovereign in Guyotat's text, might presage a strong censure, which will find here its two favourite pastures, language and sex, united; but any such censure, which may take many forms, will be unmasked by its own vehemence: condemned to being excessive if it claims to censure simply the subject and not the form, or vice versa: in either case condemned to reveal its own essence as censorship. - -Yet whatever the institutional peripeteia, the publication of this text is important: a whole body of critical and theoretical work will be carried forward, without the text ever losing its power of seduction: outside all categories and yet of an importance beyond any doubt, a new landmark and a starting-point for new writing. +\booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} is a free text: free of all subjects, of all objects, of all symbols, +written in the space (the abyss or blind-spot) where the traditional constituents of discourse (the +one who speaks, the events recounted, the way they are expressed) would be superfluous. The primary +consequence is that criticism, unable to discuss the author, his subject, or his style, can find no +way of taking hold of this text: Guyotat's language must be \enquote{entered}, not by believing it, +becoming party to an illusion, participating in a fantasy, but by writing the language with him in +his place, signing it along with him. + +Getting in on the language, in the sense of \enquote{getting in on the act}, is possible because +Guyotat produces not a manner, a genre, a literary object, but a new element (which might even be +added to the four Elements of cosmogony); this element is the phrase: substance of speech with the +qualities of a fine cloth or a foodstuff, a single sentence which never ends, whose beauty comes not +from it refers to (the reality towards which it is supposed to point) but from its breath, cut +short, repeated, as if the author were trying to show us not a series if imaginary scenes, but the +scene of language, so that the model of this new mimesis is no longer the adventure of some hero, +but the adventure of the signifier itself: what becomes of it. + +\booktitle{Eden Eden Eden} constitutes (or ought to constitute) a sort of eruption, a historical +shock: the whole of an earlier evolution of writing, seemingly double but coinciding in ways we can +now see more and more clearly, from Sade to Genet, from Mallarme to Artaud, is gathered up, +displaced, purified of its historical circumstances: no Story and no Sin (surely the same thing), we +are left simply with language and lust, not the former expressing the latter, but the two bound +together in a reciprocal metonymy, indissoluble. + +The strength of this metonymy, sovereign in Guyotat's text, might presage a strong censure, which +will find here its two favourite pastures, language and sex, united; but any such censure, which may +take many forms, will be unmasked by its own vehemence: condemned to being excessive if it claims to +censure simply the subject and not the form, or vice versa: in either case condemned to reveal its +own essence as censorship. + +Yet whatever the institutional peripeteia, the publication of this text is important: a whole body +of critical and theoretical work will be carried forward, without the text ever losing its power of +seduction: outside all categories and yet of an importance beyond any doubt, a new landmark and a +starting-point for new writing. \signoff{Roland Barthes} -- cgit v1.2.3