by phillipw | Apr 8, 2020 | BE, LO
The Venerable, Ancient Need “And Socrates the philosopher, who despised everything, was, for all that, subdued by the beauty of Alcibiades; as also was the venerable Aristotle by the beauty of his pupil Phaselites.” ~ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XIII, 906 The never...
by phillipw | Apr 6, 2020 | DI, LO
Some Keep a Glossolalia Sabbath (or Xenolalia Really Since Every Soul is Born into This One Natural Religion) “….. “Dickinson wrote that ‘While others go to Church, I go to mine, for are you not my Church, and have we not a Hymn that no one knows but...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
Like Casanova and St. Francis of Assisi His attitude to love is like a sore He dressed in velvet. He endures the stain Because he likes its dirtiness. What’s more, He thinks that love should leave a softened pain. He nurtures loves, so called, as if he were A...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | FR, LO
Always and Forever in Love I’ve been in love as long as I have known About such stuff: I’ve been in love with me. I’ve always sat on true romance’s throne Inside my heart. It’s true that I’ve been free Since teenage years to fall in love you, For instance, or with...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | BO, Ho, LO
Painless Pleasure: Two contradictory versions of the myth of Ganymede “to be very eager in the pursuit of pleasure is to go hunting for pain…. Homer…says that the greatest gods receive no advantage from their power, but are even much injured by it, if...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
The Virus: Innoculation against Sentimentality The best fact of romance is that it cures You of romance. You fall in love with man Or woman, girl or boy, and that secures Protection from this illness. That will ban It from your later years. It’s best in youth,...
