Methodist preacher?
(no name) ((no email))
Tue, 05 Aug 1997 12:54:30 EDT
Ok... somehow, Mr. McLaughlin, you have lost me with this likening
of the works of Deleuze to some re-active cleric. Perhaps
what you are after is the fact that while Deleuze did in some ways
advocate sado-masochism, for example, and various means of
limit-experience, that he did not in fact experiment with such
behaviour in his own life -- the reverse of the Methodist preacher
you refer to? Of course, Deleuze does address this point in a letter
(available here on the 'net, but I don't have the URL) where he says
in effect that he believes in the power of secrecy, and that it makes
no difference if he obtains the same results through various (read:
normal) means. This is the only sense that I can make of your otherwise
rather inane and uninformed statement.
Of course, if you are willing to point out your "proof," we can debate
this further. But Deleuze as similar to a preacher? Perhaps the
Methodist parish you attend is very different from the ones I'm familiar
with, but... somehow, I really don't think so.
John Hartmann
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1575
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