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Scatology: Shit Matters
"There where it smells of shit
it smells of being.
Man could just as well not have shat,
not have opened the anal pouch,
but he chose to shit
as he would have chosen to live
instead of consenting to live dead."- Antonin Artaud
"We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. . . . The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate."- Jean Baudrillard
"Idealists' delusion. All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are significantly better than the other causes in the world; they do not want to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all, it needs exactly the same foul-smelling manure that all other human undertakings require."- Friedrich Nietzsche
"What makes shit such a universal joke is that it's an unmistakeable reminder of our duality, of our soiled nature and of our will to glory. It is the ultimate lèse-majesté."- John Berger
"…for old Nobodaddy alort
Farted and belched and coughed,
Then swore a great oath that made Heaven quake,
And called aloud to English Blake."- William Blake
"'Good dog, good dog, nice puppy, come here, come smell this excellent perfume, from the best perfumer in town.'
And the dog, wagging his tail, which, I believe, is that creature's way of laughing and smiling, came over and stuck his curious, wet nose to the uncorked bottle. Then he backed off abruptly in alarm and barked at me reproachfully.
'Ah! You miserable dog, if I'd offered you a sack of excrement, you'd have smelled it with delight and perhaps devoured it. In this regard, my friend, you're like the public, to who one should never offer a delicate perfume. It exasperates them. Give them only carefully selected garbage.'"- Charles Baudelaire
"I give myself to you, the patient says again, but this gift of my person- as they say- Oh, mystery! is changed inexplicably into a gift of shit- a term that is also essential to our experience."- Jacques Lacan
"Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most."- Salvador Dali
"The world exists; it is not something that becomes, not something that passes away. Or rather: it becomes, it passes away, but it has never begun to become and never ceases from passing away- it maintains itself in both. It lives on itself: its excrements are its food."- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The terrestrial globe is covered with volcanoes, which serve as its anus.
Although this globe eats nothing, it often violently ejects the contents of its entrails.
These contents shoot out with a racket, and fall back, streaming down."- Georges Bataille
"And I say: shit to the spirit
I know too well by the effect of what grubby orgies, the spirit has ended up by grabbing the place before the body that actually preceded it.
I know too well that what one calls spirit is only a grinding shortage of existence, which was disgusted at the idea of becoming a body itself, and counted on what the body would lose in life in order to insure its seizure and its own subsistence
via the body that it vampirized."- Antonin Artaud
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