on Genet's negotiation of possession

… Genet is ‘faulty’ not only from the point of view of being, but also from that of having. … Nothing could belong to him, material possession was forbidden him, all his life had to be a continued effort to dematerialize objects and construct their metaphysical doubles, which alone he could possess.

- R. D. Laing and D. G. Cooper, Reason & Violence: A Decade of Sartre’s Philosophy, 1950 - 1960, pg 70.