2007/12/04 New York, NY
Slow
Taste
More about sadism:
On recommendation of my French teacher I saw recently on DVD the French movie “Une affaire de gout” (“A matter of taste”) directed by Bernard Rapp.
An extremely wealthy businessman hires a waiter to become his personal taster, his “goûteur”.
Although there is no physical violence involved very soon the relationship between master and servant becomes sadistic. The biggest perversion can be the absence of sex.
Both Pasolini’s movie “Salo” and “A matter of taste” make clear that the bourgeois knows that enjoyment is a time-consuming affair.
Whether it is food or other people’s suffering, if you enjoy it, it cannot be fast, fast, fast.
It has to be slow. Slow food and slow suffering.
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One colleague of mine is always eating her food very slowly, to optimise the pleasure, she says. I always felt slightly uneasy watching her eating. Now I understand why.
Jan T
I'm not sure if eating slowly is an act of sadism.I can say i'm in love again, after 6 long years. Buti that's an act of sadomasochism.
Pleasure
I think it is the slow and intense exposure of pleasure, without any irony, that made me felt uneasy. The lack of irony gives it the sadistic touch. Your comment made me aware of the content of my feeling. That is all, you may have a different perception or feeling.Of course the exposure of pleasure must be seen next to the act of devouring food, to understand what I mean with the ‘sadistic touch’.
Pain
@ArnonI have found this rather interesting http://catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0032.html
It is about pain, morals, truth. I only discovered it today under the influence of your comments about morals, truth, perversity etcetera.
I want to check him out too:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rudolf.otto/
It's not so much that enjoyment is a timeconsuming affair if you ask me, it all evolves around desire. Desire is always a stronger experience than the actual experience. Desire always includes suffering. Slow is for those who understand this.
Eva
I'm not sure if desire always includes suffering, maybe your desire but not all desire.Isn't desire always the longing for something you don't have at that particular moment, and therefor a form of hunger and thus suffering? I admit that all my desires include a little suffering. That doesn't mean desire is a negative experience.
Eva
Appetite is not equal to suffering.It can be, but not necessarily, only if you think that the object you desire if out of reach forever.
Appetite is not equal to desire. I don't agree with you, but that's o.k.
You never desire what you allready have, that's the tragedie of desire , that's the suffering.
You never desire what you allready have, that's the tragedie of desire , that's the suffering.
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