Re: [-empyre-] new delineations

[Simon Taylor <swht@clear.net.nz>]

found this lovely stuff in Roberto Calasso, The Forty-Nine Steps, p. 226:
"the late mimesis of rupture, combined with the reawakening of the masses,
converges primarily on a picnic of French theorists; it is nothing but the
homage of bigots to the heroes of transgression. In a gnostic world
inhabited by agnostics, there is no gesture guaranteed to transgress, and
there is nothing sadder than a community of enlightened minds still
regretting the final, familiar sin."