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The book of the universe sings and writes itself before us in Dante's heart, and at every instant his speech releases a more fervent, more concise speech at the heart of the multiplicity in which every thing becomes what it is. The mind emerges from itself "as a fire breaks from a cloud"—an inversion of the Vita Nuova's bolt of lightning, after which Beatrice's smile passes beyond all expression. Thus, Dante writes, the "sacred poem" must "leap," must accept its lack, as if it had become an integral element in a text of which it is no more than a fragmentary apparition.
Note: Pa radiso 27. " 2?. Tr. note: Paradiso 33. " 2 Sade in the Text Matter . . is definable only as the non-logical difference which represents in relation to the economy of the universe what crime represents in relation to the law. Georges Bataille THE QUESTION POSED by the seemingly unapproachable name of Sade may no doubt be summarized thus; why doesn't the Sadean text exist as text for our society and culture? For what reasons does this society, this culture, insist on seeing in a work of fiction, a series of novels, a written ensemble, something so threatening that only a reality could produce it—a reality that, by the very fact of its acceptance in the form of this occult sign, must necessarily be a sacred one?
Is definable only as the non-logical difference which represents in relation to the economy of the universe what crime represents in relation to the law. Georges Bataille THE QUESTION POSED by the seemingly unapproachable name of Sade may no doubt be summarized thus; why doesn't the Sadean text exist as text for our society and culture? For what reasons does this society, this culture, insist on seeing in a work of fiction, a series of novels, a written ensemble, something so threatening that only a reality could produce it—a reality that, by the very fact of its acceptance in the form of this occult sign, must necessarily be a sacred one?