... in almost every culture, a selective anesthesia is
what permits us to tolerate the intolerable ... --
[Sade]: showed us that
the politics of the nervous system
kead not to the sentimentalist utopia of moral reform
and human fellowship, but to a tyrranous, underground
system of rape, sodomy and murder ...
life(s)
/ closure(s)
/ reflect(s)
/ fight(s)
/ culture of pain
