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Donkey process
For two days I read the documents of the donkey process - the case, which was listened to Amsterdam ships almost half a century ago. This story is very similar to scandals around Pussy Riot and Moscow exhibitions of forbidden art. Of course, the morals in the late 60s in the Netherlands were much softer than in today's Russia, so in prison the writer Gerard Reve, who appeared before the court, would not have been put under any circumstances, but there were many similar details: there were also their Arcadia Mamontovs, deputies who did not read, but condemned, vicious pasquiliators and heroic protectors.
The case was opened in connection with the publication of Gerard Reve's book “Closer to you”. In the fragment, which caused the indignation of Senator Hendrick Algra, Revue described the copulation with God, who is to him in the form of a young gray donkey:
No, oh, I should not lose hope that someday I can write what should be written, but at the same time that no one has ever captured on paper: again a book that will make the existence of all other books, a book, at the end of which no writer will never have to suffer again, because all of humanity, yes, all, all, at the moment, at the moment it is still in the natural shackles. hatred and fear, all of it will be liberated. And then human children will see the sunrise, which has not yet been visible anywhere, and the music that floats from afar will sound, which I have never heard, but still familiar. And God Himself will come to me in the guise of a donkey-one-toe of a gray mouse color, and will approach the door, and will call, and say:
“Gerard, listen to you in this book - you know, in some places I simply could not resist tears.”
- My master and my god! May your name be glorified in eternity! I love you so endlessly, I will try to say, but without talking half, I’ll burst into tears, and I’ll start kissing it and pull it into the house, and after terrible problems with carcassing the stairs, I will still drag it into the bedroom and have it for a long time, three times in a consecutive, into its secret holes, and then give him a gift copy, not some kind of brochure, but somewhat overlapping The book - there is nothing to skimp and burn - with the dedication: “Infinite. Without words. "
The first court decision was dual: Revoy was exempted from liability, but at the same time was not recognized as innocent in violation of Article 147 (blasphemy). The writer filed an appeal. At the new process, which opened in October 1967, he decided to defend himself and made a brilliant speech. The court acquitted Revoy, and this decision in 1968 was confirmed by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. The process brought the already famous roar of huge popularity, and he acquired a house for fees, which he called in honor of his offender-Senator-the house of Algra. The court admitted that a citizen of a free society can publish texts “representing God from the unprofitable.” A good wording that can be useful in Russian courts considering cases of blasphemy. The book of Reve “Four Protective Speech” will be soon published in the Russian translation, on the 90th anniversary of the writer's birth.
“Whatever my idea of God, the fact that it, the praise of the Almighty, is very different from the“ adopted in the wide circles of the Dutch public ”of the image of God, does not yet make it punishable. The “wide circles of the Dutch public” advocate the repeated introduction of the death penalty, for bodily punishment, for the destruction of mentally ill, for censorship, burning books and the persecution of homosexuals. As I said earlier, the task of the authorities is not the legalization of the terror of ink, but, on the contrary, the fence from the mob of thinking and creating citizens. ”
The speech of the rhubarp in the donkey process is not only a model of sanity, but also a parody of theological casuistry. He carefully disassembles the accusation and comes to the conclusion that the image of God in the form of a donkey and fantasy about copulating with him are not blasphemy.
“The highest, the most naibesterate creature, which I only know, except the elephant, is a donkey. If there is any sample of kindness, devotion and patience, it is precisely this creature. It is no accident that, according to legend, the donkey was one of only two chosen animals, which was allowed to be present at the birth of the Lord. (...) Only a heartless person can badly interpret my idea of reincarnating God into a donkey (...). The sexual proximity of a person with an animal is considered reprehensible, but you need to ask yourself the question: is an animal really a donkey in the usual sense of the word? This is a donkey, which, in contrast to the outbuilders of the shooters of this business, can read. This donkey is truly God in the guise of a donkey , something like a god in the Holy Communion is bread and wine . We can neither punish sexual intercourse, nor condemn, and this has the same strength, both for hetero- and for homosexuality. The donkey appearance is nothing more than a shell, a disguise: I go to bed not with an animal, but with God in the appearance of an animal. And what can be objected against sexual intercourse with the Lord? If the Lord in the festival of the Holy Communion invites me to taste him from his flesh, will he really refuse me his flesh in sexual intercourse? (...)
As for the restrictions imposed by law on homosexual sexual intercourse, in this case they have no power, because - let's agree with this - the Lord, like me, is an adult. ”
Around the speech of Reva, the theological polemic flared up, experts discovered in his judgments the echoes of the thoughts of Schopenhauer and Huyzing. From the “Lord of Gerard Revue” from the Van Den Boschu -Boosch, I will give a fragment of one response to the process:
“It is outrageous in such things that Christians demand for themselves the monopoly right to be more sensitive to the mystery of life than others. Fanatically believers are not able to look from the side of their own faith, they simply cannot imagine that what they broadcast from the church department can be blasphemous for others. ” (Adrian Morrien).
The great writer Gerard Reve died 6 years ago, and last Sunday his compatriot and peer (1923) composer Simeon Ten Kholt, composer. This is a great generation, the last generation of people of a book that have grown without a TV. If it had not been completely exterminated to the USSR, the war and the camps, perhaps, had no donkey processes.
http://www.youtube.com/empted/1o2x7qfzxfq
The case was opened in connection with the publication of Gerard Reve's book “Closer to you”. In the fragment, which caused the indignation of Senator Hendrick Algra, Revue described the copulation with God, who is to him in the form of a young gray donkey:
No, oh, I should not lose hope that someday I can write what should be written, but at the same time that no one has ever captured on paper: again a book that will make the existence of all other books, a book, at the end of which no writer will never have to suffer again, because all of humanity, yes, all, all, at the moment, at the moment it is still in the natural shackles. hatred and fear, all of it will be liberated. And then human children will see the sunrise, which has not yet been visible anywhere, and the music that floats from afar will sound, which I have never heard, but still familiar. And God Himself will come to me in the guise of a donkey-one-toe of a gray mouse color, and will approach the door, and will call, and say:
“Gerard, listen to you in this book - you know, in some places I simply could not resist tears.”
- My master and my god! May your name be glorified in eternity! I love you so endlessly, I will try to say, but without talking half, I’ll burst into tears, and I’ll start kissing it and pull it into the house, and after terrible problems with carcassing the stairs, I will still drag it into the bedroom and have it for a long time, three times in a consecutive, into its secret holes, and then give him a gift copy, not some kind of brochure, but somewhat overlapping The book - there is nothing to skimp and burn - with the dedication: “Infinite. Without words. "
The first court decision was dual: Revoy was exempted from liability, but at the same time was not recognized as innocent in violation of Article 147 (blasphemy). The writer filed an appeal. At the new process, which opened in October 1967, he decided to defend himself and made a brilliant speech. The court acquitted Revoy, and this decision in 1968 was confirmed by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. The process brought the already famous roar of huge popularity, and he acquired a house for fees, which he called in honor of his offender-Senator-the house of Algra. The court admitted that a citizen of a free society can publish texts “representing God from the unprofitable.” A good wording that can be useful in Russian courts considering cases of blasphemy. The book of Reve “Four Protective Speech” will be soon published in the Russian translation, on the 90th anniversary of the writer's birth.
Gerard Reve's book "Four Protective Speech" was a great success
In that very 1966, when the donkey process began, Gerard Reva, many surprising many, joined the Roman Catholic Church. This decision “stemmed from my passionate thirst for space, silence, depth, beauty and sacraments that it provided me, although with a load in the form of bad snakes, stupidity and viciousness.” In the speech, uttered in court, the Revoy contrasts his God "to your aunt to the god, who says that you had to bow, passing by your master's house."“Whatever my idea of God, the fact that it, the praise of the Almighty, is very different from the“ adopted in the wide circles of the Dutch public ”of the image of God, does not yet make it punishable. The “wide circles of the Dutch public” advocate the repeated introduction of the death penalty, for bodily punishment, for the destruction of mentally ill, for censorship, burning books and the persecution of homosexuals. As I said earlier, the task of the authorities is not the legalization of the terror of ink, but, on the contrary, the fence from the mob of thinking and creating citizens. ”
The speech of the rhubarp in the donkey process is not only a model of sanity, but also a parody of theological casuistry. He carefully disassembles the accusation and comes to the conclusion that the image of God in the form of a donkey and fantasy about copulating with him are not blasphemy.
“The highest, the most naibesterate creature, which I only know, except the elephant, is a donkey. If there is any sample of kindness, devotion and patience, it is precisely this creature. It is no accident that, according to legend, the donkey was one of only two chosen animals, which was allowed to be present at the birth of the Lord. (...) Only a heartless person can badly interpret my idea of reincarnating God into a donkey (...). The sexual proximity of a person with an animal is considered reprehensible, but you need to ask yourself the question: is an animal really a donkey in the usual sense of the word? This is a donkey, which, in contrast to the outbuilders of the shooters of this business, can read. This donkey is truly God in the guise of a donkey , something like a god in the Holy Communion is bread and wine . We can neither punish sexual intercourse, nor condemn, and this has the same strength, both for hetero- and for homosexuality. The donkey appearance is nothing more than a shell, a disguise: I go to bed not with an animal, but with God in the appearance of an animal. And what can be objected against sexual intercourse with the Lord? If the Lord in the festival of the Holy Communion invites me to taste him from his flesh, will he really refuse me his flesh in sexual intercourse? (...)
As for the restrictions imposed by law on homosexual sexual intercourse, in this case they have no power, because - let's agree with this - the Lord, like me, is an adult. ”
Around the speech of Reva, the theological polemic flared up, experts discovered in his judgments the echoes of the thoughts of Schopenhauer and Huyzing. From the “Lord of Gerard Revue” from the Van Den Boschu -Boosch, I will give a fragment of one response to the process:
“It is outrageous in such things that Christians demand for themselves the monopoly right to be more sensitive to the mystery of life than others. Fanatically believers are not able to look from the side of their own faith, they simply cannot imagine that what they broadcast from the church department can be blasphemous for others. ” (Adrian Morrien).
The great writer Gerard Reve died 6 years ago, and last Sunday his compatriot and peer (1923) composer Simeon Ten Kholt, composer. This is a great generation, the last generation of people of a book that have grown without a TV. If it had not been completely exterminated to the USSR, the war and the camps, perhaps, had no donkey processes.
http://www.youtube.com/empted/1o2x7qfzxfq