erotic fresco from Pompeii |
Fantasy and romanticism go hand in hand. The romantic yearns for or postulates a transcendent reality. Both Epicurus and Lucretius believed in carpe diem. It was the opposite of "the search" which Walker Percy’s Binx Bolling pursues inThe Moviegoer and certainly a 180 from Christian notions of redemption, resurrection and the Afterlife--though Percy was a Catholic. But fantasy can function in a purely biological way as an attribute of mind and therefore body. It’s what makes eroticism possible. Bodies in and of themselves are defined by their corporeal essence. Reality defies platonic forms. Attraction is a brief madness that creates a nimbus of eros, the potion that turns a quotidian male or female into a desired object and evolutionarily the messenger that exports the DNA of one generation on to the next.
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