[Text ID: “INTERVIEWER: Is this why the language of mysticism is so erotic?
PAZ: Yes, because lovers, which is what the mystics are, constitute the greatest image of communion. But even between lovers solitude is never completely abolished. Conversely, solitude is never absolute. We are always with someone, even if it is only our shadow. We are never one—we are always we. These extremes are the poles of human life.”]
“No matter how complete our dominion over another is, there is always an impassable zone, an inaccessible particle. The others are unreachable, not because they are impenetrable, but because they are infinite. Each person hides an infinity. No one can possess the totality of another for the same reason that no one can give of one’s self entirely. A total submission would be death, a negation both of possessing and giving. We ask for everything, and they give it to us: a death, nothing. ”
The Universal Dissolution, An Erotic Beyond: Sade by Octavio Paz
The author, Octavio Paz, was a Mexican poet and was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. This set contains an essay by Paz about Duchamp, a selection of Duchamp’s writing compiled by Paz, several reproductions and a stand up cut-out of Duchamp.
Danny Castillones Sillada,Those Sweet and Painful Memories // Artwork by @/zhihuie on twitter // V.E. Schwab,The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue//Halsey,Angel on Fire//Steve Salo,Forgotten Art//Halsey,Angel on Fire//Sarah Thebarge,The Invisible Girls//Mitski,Working for the Knife // Artwork by @/bekysfairy on ig // Octavio Paz, tr. by Eliot Weinberger, from The Poems of Octavio Paz; “The Prisoner”
