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Posts tagged The Torture Garden
Darkest Depths of Human Terror
Jul 30th
In that atrocious second I realised that lust can attain the darkest depths of human terror and vividly imitate Hell in all it’s horror. – The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau) More ...
Women’s Tears
Jul 28th
… They were women’s tears – tears for nothing! – The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau) More ...
Just a European Lover
Jul 26th
But you’re just a European lover … a poor timid little soul who is sensitive to the cold and has been stupidly indoctrinated with a fear of nature and a hatred of love by the Catholic religion. It has Falsified and perverted the meaning of life within you. – The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau) More ...
A Hollow Sham
Jul 25th
…it assaults the very notion of “decency” as a hollow sham. – The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau) More ...
It Should Be On TV
Jul 20th
“I like the idea in “Archives of Pain” I took from Michael Foucault, when he advocates a return to nineteen-century values of execution and capital punishment. You know. It appeals to me, but you shouldn’t only bring back capital punishment. It should be compulsory that your body be kept, have oil poured over it and More ...
Dying Is Not Sad
Jul 15th
Dying is not sad – it’s living when you’re not happy that’s sad – Clara, The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau) I’m watching way too much Big Brother recently. Watching Paul & Helen flirt is painful, just get on with it for Gods sake. More ...
That Permanent Contradiction
Jun 9th
You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretences of your civilization which makes More ...