Posted by sigismund on December 20, 2011, at 22:47:37
In reply to Re: Women, sex + death from vampires to psychoanalysis, posted by floatingbridge on December 17, 2011, at 9:03:18
I prefer vampires to be a metaphor for hard drug addiction: brilliant, ancient, cynical and tired of life.
These new vampires don't cut it with me, though I like the woman's reaction to this spunky yet disappointingly reticent young vampire (if I may so characterise him).The Lars von Trier film is one I would like to see.
Somehow, reading about the woman in that I was reminded of Patti Smith's opening line in Horses
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine
Meltin in a pot of thieves
Wild card up my sleeve
Thick heart of stone
My sins my own
They belong to me, me.
People say beware
But I don't care
The world is just rules and regulations to me, me.That is from so long ago. John Cale (Paris 1919) produced that album.
So Spielrein is from reality. Hitler succeeded in becoming the man who would decide who lived and who died. Should the Roma die? Homosexuals? Jehovah's Witnesses? Poles? Slavs? There were many other groups awaiting his kindness in awarding them a mercy death. As he said when considering his career 'In the end one is guilty of having been too kind', or words to that effect, which is less surprising to me now than it was once.
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