O splendour of the flesh! O ideal splendour! O love renewed, triumphant dawn aurora, Where, at their feet the Gods and Heroes, Callipyge the white and her little Eros, Drowned in the snow of rose-petals, press Women and flowers beneath their feet’s caress! —Rimbaud Since English roses are the Crown of the Evolution, that Nature…
Category: Arthur Rimbaud
Against the Fourth Commandment
In the “Saturday Afternoon with Carolyn Yeager: Kairos on The German Character,” a man called to rebut the German blogger Kairos arguing that Christianity is good because of the Fourth Commandment, “Honor thy father and thy mother.” What the caller ignored is that the Fourth Commandment is intrinsically intertwined with the Monsters from the Id…