On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:06:13 -0000, domfox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Well, yes. It gets you off the treadmill, the production line; out of the
>meat market.
It imposes fantastically idealised constraints on the
>notoriously irregular world of the affects, and is thus an extension of
the
>sublime.
How about marriage and adultery in Dante; Francesca and Paolo.
The revenge of the 'offended ' husband eternally tightens
with 'peccaminoso gesto', the very fact/act that he wanted to destroy.
The adulterous lovers who have broken the sacrament of the marriage are
now thighteend in the sacrament of the tragic:
Amor condusse noi ad 'una' morte....
>It renders you indifferent to manipulation, to exploitation, to
>being yanked around by saddoes and slappers and people in marketing. It
>gives you a good excuse to tell people who want to burrow under your skin
to
>piss off.
I think that those man or women who preach 'faithfulness' as a doctrine
have been domesticized and castrated by a powerful partner or else by
their own fear of losing the thing possessed (to be betrayied). Very few
are immune from this double-knot drama. Of course, I am sure that those
(of us) who preach faithfulness for all these good reasons, are themselves
often rather than faithful.
The solution is not celibacy. I do not know what the solution is....
It's a humanly practicable second best to outright celibacy,
>really: it *is* better to be married than to burn.
>
>Dom
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