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Antonin Artaud

...And it was always drainage for angels.

About Me

Me, Antonin Artaud, I am my son, my father, my mother, and me; leveler of the imbecilic periplus where begetting impaled itself, the daddy-mommy periplus and the child, soot from grandma's ass, much more than father-mother's. Which means that before mommy and daddy who had neither father nor mother, it is said, and where indeed would they have got them, they, when they became this unique conjunct neither husband nor wife, could have seen sit or stand, before this improbable hole the spirit feels out for us, to fill us with a little more self-disgust, was this unemployable body, made of meat and mad sperm, this body hanged, from before lice, sweating on the impossible table of heaven, its callous odor of abject detritus ejected from the snooze of the finger-mutilated Inca who for an idea had an arm but had as a hand only a dead palm, having lost his fingers by dint of killing kings.

My Interests

The perversion and rearrangement of the internal organs to remake God's profane creation. And also theater.

I'd like to meet:

Doctors. For it is through doctors and not through patients that the world began. There will be a time when the wretch who scrubs the walls of the latrines where we shit death will realize he was me.

Music:

The voices in my head. Also, occasionally, the death chant of the Tarahumara Indians of the Aztecs. I have penetrated the red earth cunt of Mexico, and it smelled good the same way it stank, like milky lapped-up bone fragments. Did you know that insane asylums are conscious and premeditated receptacles of black magic?

Movies:

Abel Gance's "Napoleon" (1927), Germain Dulac's "The Seashell and the Clergyman" (1927), Carl Theodor Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928), Leon Poirier's "Verdun, Visions D'Histoire" (1929), Marcel L'Herbier's "L'Argent" (1929), G.W. Pabst's "The Threepenny Opera" (1931), Abel Gance's "Mater Dolorosa" (1932), Serge de Poligny's "The Shot at Dawn" (1932), Raymond Bernard's "Wooden Crosses" (1932), Fritz Lang's "Liliom" (1934), Abel Gance's "Bonaparte et la Revolution" (1971), Philip Kaufman's "Henry & June" (1990) and Gerard Mordillat's "En Compagnie d'Antonin Artaud" (1993). Other than these films, the entire history of cinema is not worth the desquamations of a dead tench who pisses while buttressing her tit in order to cross syphilis.

Television:

I have never heard of this invention.

Books:

The Theater and Its Double, Heliogabalus: Or, The Crowned Anarchist, Watchfiends and Rack Screams, The Monk, Artaud L'Momo, Van Gogh: The Man Suicided By Society, Blows and Bombs, the many collections and anthologies of my work, except for the profane English translations. Also: Anything by my esteemed colleague Gerard de Nerval.

Heroes:

God, that lousy cunt, that crotch full of stars, who made the lice he's infected with shine, and the cross that he's always wanted to fuck me with.

My Blog

La Culture Indienne

Je suis venu au Mexique prendre contact avec la Terre Rougeet elle pue comme elle embaume;elle sent bon comme elle puait.Cafre d'urine de la pente d'un vagin dur,et qui refuse quand on le prend.Camphr...
Posted by Antonin Artaud on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:33:00 PST

The Tale of Popocatepel

When I think: man, I think. sweet potato, popo, ca ca, head, papa, and the 'l' of the little breath exhaling to animate all that. Sweet potato necessity of the pot of being which maybe will hav...
Posted by Antonin Artaud on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST