Tuesday, March 18, 2008


Actaeon out hunting chances upon the goddess Diana
and her nymphs bathing;
furious, she changes him into
a stag; his own dogs no longer know him and tear him
apart.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

debris


"All could be well, but in fact all is lost."

- L'ARGENT
- Adorno, 'Mahler'

Saturday, March 1, 2008

the good wound


Among the great tragedies of childhood, De Quincey included that of the little boy's lips forever separated from his sister's kisses. Men with no sisters also share in this tragedy. Gloomy, incessant death of the sister in Munch's paintings. (Without a dead sister, abandoned lifeless at the foot of a distant staircase, a man cannot rediscover in the dark his sister's lips, the good wound happy to start bleeding again.) At its most ethereal and imaginative, a sister's wedding reaches the deepest endogamic intensity; it makes us feel as if our ties with Chaos and the contracted universe cannot be undone.

- Guido Ceronetti

image from the very fine
batsandswallows.blogspot.com