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The Ascension of St. Gertrude of Baltimore 1. Half objects are alive. Art enlarges the Western eye, arm reappears as an extension of his desires. Caucasian incised edges shrivel as the body makes the plane of eye visible, definite, along the thread of green that marks the riverbank. Losing its beard, the inner world, the outer spins from nude to nude, making the dangers of nature seem all too evident. Myopic sulks, some fertile stamping ground, flawed but not unastonishing. 2. From a moving up toward sunlight, he comes upon assertions that many might single out for further clarification. Dour mosaics have survived in a thousand forms of culture. At the apex of his own ducal authority, the placement of a leg is widely parodied. Comic realities full of charm and surprise come to us with very little in the way of bad press. A woman is the problem that the oppressive robes seem to address, hallmarks of a cold hierarchical mind. Rarely documented were his private letters. 3. I will argue that the implacable memory vaulting towards the heavenly lens of age brings us nothing but misery unless the borders of the body be well guarded and observed. Three, two, one. And what then? Electrified by her beauty, I wandered through a sentimental landscape stopping only to inquire after lost relations, their athletic vigor that was told to me. Self-impairment is what took poor Shelley down. Was that ever a secret? 4. Soft and flowing were her ways and words, her androgyne friends. The white fez marked her out in public, at night spots along the river, or down at the harbor. Baltimore gives and Baltimore takes away. He even said that he wanted to grow old, no longer in the cloistered university, but out of town, out in the boonies. A face reddens with sexual flush. I met you and you had the more extraordinary influence over me. Apollo only comes out by daylight, the heart irately read. [after, and out of, Camille Paglia’s *Sexual Personae*] Hal Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html