MDMD(8):(X-rated post) S & M & D.

[Michel Ryckx]

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (that's not the one from the chocolate cake)
and Michel Foucault --given his personal appetites--, and of course
Pointsman, Dark Engineer or, better: "hungry Bladem[a]n for Dogs"
(113.5), they all would have liked the Tyburn passage.  It mixes many
things.  Everything points at everything; all things get tangled up.

(1) The normal reaction of the male organ due to asphyxation whilst the
Owner of It being hanged (which gives the expression 'rigor mortis' a
rather new meaning) is used as an Introduction to Flirtation.  Lady F.
(this is not Lady V.) is "betting heavily against it". (111.5) There's
also a very weird kind of sexual activity where, in order to prolong
male orgasm, temporary asphyxation is used.  Quite dangerous, so it is
said.  Is it at this activity that is hinted (112.4-9), when comparing
the Murderer to the Innocent.  Who is the Murderer?  Who is the Innocent
with his "exstatic surprise" ?  Who lives up to what?

(2) A Rope of Silk, black livery, black velvet with the human skin
'paper-white', a black Silk Cushion.  (all on p. 112)  To be followed by
French words -- a frivolous people them over the Channel, Brits thought
at the time-- : Rigueur, Piquance et quelques autres; these are all
words easily linked with sensual activities of the more subtle
"evil-in-innocence" (?) kind.  V. in Furs?

(3) kkkk! (112.34 and 113.1), the sound of one dying due to a "Thuggee,
--"  silk rope, an offering to Kali, goddess with many functions, even
in love.

Gosh, the more I read this Tyburn passage, the more it confuses me.  I
really would like to know how the author achieves this.  What does he do
with the reader?  Perhaps time for a bit of theory, Paul Nightingale?

Michel.