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    <body><![CDATA[     Cultural theory, art criticism, philosophy and drunken shamanism all blended together with poetry by the world's most distinguished debauched librarian who favored human sacrifice.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bataille is a welcome relief from the dry philosophical inquiries of his era and he has a way of delivering his points with rhetorical flourish, often preferable to dry logical diagnosis.  Who would have thought that one could turn excretion and expenditure into the basis of a philosophy?  His attem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6603175">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My only remaining impression of this book is how tickled I was to receive as a Christmas gift from my ultra-Conservative Aunt and Uncle a book containing titles like &quot;The Solar Anus.&quot; I had asked for it, of course, but never got through more than a couple pieces.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting and esoteric. Bataille casts his careful eye over some obscure subjects, but I can see why he's so influential among poststructuralist thinkers. He is a darker Barthes, a more visceral Baudelaire, the textual equivalent of Max Ernst.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Provocative. Parts were beautiful and others were a hard slog to get through. He remains a fascinating thinker of the time. I'm definitely looking forward to diving into his <em>On Nietzsche</em>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the few books I brought with me when I lived in Japan.  Georges Bataille is one of the great 'thinkers.'  Just to spend time reading him with a glass of sake is a fond memory for me.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bataille's symbolic universe is captivating. ]]></body>
    
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