MY MOTHER - GEORGES BATAILLE

A short story, which has an Oedipal nature, I am still quite confused by what I read. I gather that it is about celebrating the insanity of life and the pleasures of the flesh. The book has a strange pace, everything feels really high up in the air, the whole time, lots of very strange things are told in such a way it becomes normal, like the sharing of women with his mother, its treated very casual and after reading the book for a long period of time it strange when I would stop and think about things normally realising the absurdity. But in that sense its quite beautiful through normalising madness. I am particularly drawn to the mothers character because of her energy portrayed through text, she is portrayed as the mad but tragic heroine who people seem to love but also are sickened by. When she speaks i imagine her voice to be quite high not in tone but in energy all the time, but in a dead false way. It reminds me of the style of acting in many John Waters films, especially of the character 'DIVINE', everything is on the same level, so it constantly feels like something really exciting is going to happen to the point where you realise it never is. Its an absurd contradiction. The mother is wild in her actions but because of the way she speaks about them she becomes dull but in an intoxicating sort of way. In performance perhaps I could explore her character, or like the character of DIVINE explore the very 'high' way of speaking and acting. Recently I have been watching a show called 'RuPauls Drag Race', all about competing to be americas next top drag queen, in this a lot of the acting is the same, everything high, but i have felt very inspired watching it because this style is enchanting to me, its absurd how the constant tone which in moderation would be exciting becomes dulls but then it becomes exciting through its absurd dullness, its a paradox.