MASTERS AND BODIES
Jean Cocteau
Illustration for Jean Genet’s ‘Querelle de Brest’
1947
“Revolution is not ‘showing’ life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.”
— Guy Debord, from Society of the Spectacle (via theonlymagicleftisart)
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“CF Gill: In letter number one you use the expression “Your slim gilt soul,” and you refer to Lord Alfred’s “red rose-leaf lips.” The second letter contains the words, “You are the divine thing I want,” and describes Lord Alfred’s letter as being “delightful, red and yellow wine to me.” Do you think that an ordinarily constituted being would address such expressions to a younger man?
Wilde: I am not, happily I think, an ordinarily constituted being.”
— Transcript from Oscar Wilde’s trial. CF Gill cross-examined Wilde for the prosecution. (via vyvyan-holland)
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