When George Bataille lost his funding for Documents, (just after Breton launched his attacks) he embarked on a number of projects including that he wanted to publish a weekly magazine on universal history. I read this in Stuart Kendall’s red book about Bataille that I must buy. I borrowed it from the library who demanded its return. It is the red book that has raised me up the most in all the red books I recall reading.

I surrendered it without noting the exact quote.

I love that Bataille tasked himself, in the midst of a depressing and difficult time for him, with .. er.. universal history.