WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.240 align:middle line:84% The first poem in the Violence Of The Morning 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:06.840 align:middle line:84% is called Minotaur Provides for this Paragraph. 00:00:06.840 --> 00:00:11.780 align:middle line:84% Minotaur was the title of a periodical 00:00:11.780 --> 00:00:16.530 align:middle line:84% that the great French thinker Bataille 00:00:16.530 --> 00:00:20.460 align:middle line:84% was planning to edit, to produce, 00:00:20.460 --> 00:00:23.190 align:middle line:90% but it never got off the ground. 00:00:23.190 --> 00:00:30.990 align:middle line:84% And at the back of the text for his book, Inner Experience, 00:00:30.990 --> 00:00:39.270 align:middle line:84% there are notes from Bataille with editorial comments 00:00:39.270 --> 00:00:41.070 align:middle line:90% and so on. 00:00:41.070 --> 00:00:46.380 align:middle line:84% I incorporated the notes of that editorial comments in brackets 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:49.380 align:middle line:84% in the poem, and I'm not going to make 00:00:49.380 --> 00:00:52.650 align:middle line:84% brackets signs every time I come to one of those. 00:00:52.650 --> 00:00:56.490 align:middle line:84% But maybe you'll be able to hear the difference. 00:00:56.490 --> 00:01:01.740 align:middle line:90% The speaker then is Minotaur. 00:01:01.740 --> 00:01:04.450 align:middle line:90% 00:01:04.450 --> 00:01:09.990 align:middle line:84% The ground very much eating, my death 00:01:09.990 --> 00:01:13.050 align:middle line:90% is the breathing and the flower. 00:01:13.050 --> 00:01:16.650 align:middle line:84% Pretty thing chopped up around its center, 00:01:16.650 --> 00:01:20.630 align:middle line:90% edible somewhere above. 00:01:20.630 --> 00:01:24.440 align:middle line:84% I close my eyes and walk out into the city on all fours 00:01:24.440 --> 00:01:26.210 align:middle line:90% and on to the meadow. 00:01:26.210 --> 00:01:27.080 align:middle line:90% Why? 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:34.400 align:middle line:84% It blushes to see me and give myself over to replaced by. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:35.780 align:middle line:90% It's useless. 00:01:35.780 --> 00:01:38.420 align:middle line:84% I get a dirty feeling right here. 00:01:38.420 --> 00:01:42.280 align:middle line:84% I think these nerve endings are not nice. 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:47.680 align:middle line:84% My friends in the margins sacrificed. 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:51.100 align:middle line:84% Stand up, pulse, I say, even if one leg is 00:01:51.100 --> 00:01:53.830 align:middle line:90% a field, and another, a condor. 00:01:53.830 --> 00:01:57.040 align:middle line:84% I talk to myself this way to keep off 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.330 align:middle line:84% the smells of jagged, discursive life. 00:02:01.330 --> 00:02:06.580 align:middle line:84% Look behind the first edition, air petting the blackberries. 00:02:06.580 --> 00:02:09.789 align:middle line:90% They have nothing on us now. 00:02:09.789 --> 00:02:13.780 align:middle line:84% The stories I tell my children, the library opens at 10:00. 00:02:13.780 --> 00:02:19.950 align:middle line:84% The regulations I'd pass on to them crossed out. 00:02:19.950 --> 00:02:23.310 align:middle line:84% My friends, I shall get to the heart of it all presently. 00:02:23.310 --> 00:02:25.800 align:middle line:84% I've been put where I've been given 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:31.300 align:middle line:84% the plan of, plus the outside isn't in relationship really, 00:02:31.300 --> 00:02:34.060 align:middle line:90% illegible, crossed out. 00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:37.510 align:middle line:84% We give next these scattered notes. 00:02:37.510 --> 00:02:40.150 align:middle line:84% Herodotus was wrong about an Egyptian reputed 00:02:40.150 --> 00:02:42.820 align:middle line:84% to have the loudest voice in the world. 00:02:42.820 --> 00:02:45.970 align:middle line:84% I myself have filled these 14 miles of corridors 00:02:45.970 --> 00:02:48.670 align:middle line:84% with the sounds of troops shouting as they 00:02:48.670 --> 00:02:51.100 align:middle line:90% kill, and my mother was human. 00:02:51.100 --> 00:02:54.790 align:middle line:90% I should not be overlooked. 00:02:54.790 --> 00:02:59.950 align:middle line:84% Dilating in darkness to be born, again, crossed out, 00:02:59.950 --> 00:03:03.160 align:middle line:90% blind creature, start again. 00:03:03.160 --> 00:03:07.450 align:middle line:90% Oh love, start again. 00:03:07.450 --> 00:03:10.250 align:middle line:90% Her hair was yellow as the gold. 00:03:10.250 --> 00:03:12.910 align:middle line:84% She was a jolly dame, and stoutly served me, 00:03:12.910 --> 00:03:15.700 align:middle line:90% and I did love her for the same. 00:03:15.700 --> 00:03:17.350 align:middle line:90% Verse is my passion. 00:03:17.350 --> 00:03:19.450 align:middle line:90% It gets me out of here. 00:03:19.450 --> 00:03:24.700 align:middle line:84% I sway my rump and get off my thoughts 00:03:24.700 --> 00:03:27.250 align:middle line:90% for I was hither come to them. 00:03:27.250 --> 00:03:30.550 align:middle line:84% I saw how from the slivered flowers, red drops of blood 00:03:30.550 --> 00:03:35.770 align:middle line:84% did fall and how that shuddering horribly the branches. 00:03:35.770 --> 00:03:39.480 align:middle line:84% I was addicted to rage, the doctor said. 00:03:39.480 --> 00:03:41.280 align:middle line:90% He gave me a funny look. 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:47.610 align:middle line:84% My father called me names, penis envy probably, start again. 00:03:47.610 --> 00:03:50.700 align:middle line:84% On me, I cannot stay focused in this gloom. 00:03:50.700 --> 00:03:55.110 align:middle line:84% I saw the millions of data crowded on the head of a pin. 00:03:55.110 --> 00:03:56.400 align:middle line:90% This was a dream. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:58.530 align:middle line:90% I was shot into space. 00:03:58.530 --> 00:04:00.210 align:middle line:90% This was a dream. 00:04:00.210 --> 00:04:03.360 align:middle line:84% Bollocks brained, the doctor said, asses, 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:06.830 align:middle line:84% I blew them apart with one scream. 00:04:06.830 --> 00:04:10.610 align:middle line:90% How many feet of sod on my roof? 00:04:10.610 --> 00:04:13.430 align:middle line:90% Sometimes, I think I hear rain. 00:04:13.430 --> 00:04:16.279 align:middle line:84% I patched together from the tarnished silver 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:21.680 align:middle line:84% sounds a slithery suit of glitter scales. 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.500 align:middle line:84% Oh, ladies, run your hands along my spine. 00:04:24.500 --> 00:04:31.890 align:middle line:84% Yes, yes, I know, only a wild destruction shines. 00:04:31.890 --> 00:04:36.210 align:middle line:84% On the other side, death is, in a sense, 00:04:36.210 --> 00:04:40.110 align:middle line:84% an impostor crossed out, and when 00:04:40.110 --> 00:04:45.750 align:middle line:84% the book is finished after which I tons of flesh 00:04:45.750 --> 00:04:47.610 align:middle line:90% and its stupidity. 00:04:47.610 --> 00:04:52.840 align:middle line:84% Stop, the collapse of time within me filthy, 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:55.740 align:middle line:90% bite the outstretched hand.