In a philosophical erotic narrative an essay on poetry and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey one reminiscent of the Grail quest failing he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.Humanity is faced with a double perspective in one direction violent pleasure horror and deathampmdashprecisely the perspective of poetryampmdashand in the opposite direction that of science or the real world of utility. Only the useful the real have a serious character. We are never within our rights in preferring seduction to it truth has rights over us. Indeed it has every right. And yet we can and indeed we must respond to something which not being God is stronger than every right that impossible to which we accede only by forgetting the truth of all these rights.ampmdashGeorges BatailleGeorges Bataille 18971962 was a French intellectual and literary icon who wrote essays novels and poems exploring philosophical and sociological subjects such as eroticism and surrealism. City Lights published more of Batailles works including Erotism The Tears of Erosampnbspand Story of the Eye.