TALES OF AN ORANGEPEELER an archive of pleasures, wounds, sublimations & other curiosities :: profile 05.13.05, friday night "[Genet] traced every artistic impulse to the blessure, or 'wound', in each of us: 'There is no other origin of beauty than the wound, singular, different for each person, hidden or visible, which every man keeps inside him, which he preserves and where he withdraws when he wants to leave the world for a passing but profound solitude.'"--from Genet: A Biography, Edmund White |