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"Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques."
— J.G. Ballard (The Atrocity Exhibition)

tags: exploration, perversion, sensation, sex, violence

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"Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all."
— J.G. Ballard (The Atrocity Exhibition)

tags: perversion, sex

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"To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security."
— Walter M. Miller Jr. (A Canticle for Leibowitz)

tags: ends, perversion, security, suffering

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