John Reardon

Every society its bonds of eblonging, but such bonds do not always extinguish the desire people have to combine together who those like them in a social bond. Mere belonging is doubtless a significant response to the desire to bind, and the necessity for common action assures its continuance [...] The belonging of fact cannot satisfy us, since it does not allow our relation with others to be founded on what is, according to the choice we make, most important for us. We are complete only outside ourselves, in the human plenitude of an assembly, but we become complete only if, as we gather together, we do so in a way that responds to our intimate demands [...] to the extent that we no longer want to be disfigured and ridiculous in our own eyes...' (Georges Bataille, The Absence ofMyth, 1994, Verso)

Please be seated @ 11am sharp - late comers will not be admitted. First come first served basis.