Thursday, January 23, 2025

Pompeii



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.

listen to Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl" (1995)

read "An Incident of Defenestration" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

listen to James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing "It's a Man's World"

and listen to "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Wants to Dance)" by Tina Charles (1975)

and listen to "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne with Belinda Carlisle

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