[lit-ideas] Re: The Sect of the Phoenix
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:05:19 EDT
More on the sect of the phoenix. This time from a book on Borges by G. Bell:
"a mysterious set whose sole bond ... is an unmentionable 'secret', a simple
ritual, that is "trivial, momentary, and does not require description".
cf. My Secret Life -- but how he describes it!
"In case there are doubts [that the secret is 'the sex act'] Borges onc
etold Ronald Christ,
'the act is what Whitman says,
'the divine husband knows, from the work of fatherhood".
(Christ, p. 190).
I believe it is Daniel Balderston -- in an essay which he give me
photocopied and I believe I have misplaced -- entitled, "Fecal Dialectic" and
deals
with Borges's sexual 'adventures' -- that a more narrow interpretation is
given
for the kind of 'sex act' involved.
I believe Balderston's essay is found online, should check.
JLS
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