the moon's favors: "the beautiful is difficult"

2012/05/03

"the beautiful is difficult"

A writes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/02/ladies-why-you-should-stop-shaving I went to a party at the girl who wrote this's house once, and she is very pretty and irish and i can see how men would be more 'tolerant' of her not shaving, but i dont think they would feel the same about women who dont 'have something to make up for it'. isnt it great that men are grossed out by a woman's natural state? whereas the idea of a man waxing himself is probably weird to most women unless he is like robin williams.

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine