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The Incommunicable, According to Pierre Klossowski

Aug 7
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"There is nothing more disastrous than the encounter of two idiosyncrasies, mutually attracted by the incommunicable which they assert, and which thus sympathize with the exterior by virtue of a semblance of affinity, but which must to hate one another for the same reason as soon as one succeeds in imposing oneself on the outside by means borrowed from a set of conventional signs—hence by true or false adaptation to common sense—the reason for the other to cry out trea­son, since it was as if understood between the two natures that nothing would be divulged of what they alone could say to each other". Pierre Klossowski, The Blower.

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