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In every act, even evil, in
the evil of punishment just as
much as in the evil of guilt,
God's glory is equally revealed
and shines forth.
Meister Eckhart.
from Articles condemned in
the Bull of John XXII
The end of the striptease is
then no longer to drag into the
light, a hidden depth, but to
signify through the shedding of
an incongruous and artifical
clothing, nakedness as a natural
vesture of a woman, which amounts
in the end to regaining a
perfectly chaste state of the
flesh.
Roland Barthes
from "Striptease"
The process of a girl's
becoming a woman depends very
much on the clitoris passing on
this sensitivity to the vaginal
orifice in good time and
completely. In cases of what is
known as sexual anaesthesia in
women the clitoris has
obstinately retained its
sensitivity.
Sigmund Freud
from "The Sexual Life of
Human Beings"
pointing out the hole it
spread
here, there, opening
that some of the heat
would escape, some of the
painstakingly gathered
bits of meat and kleenex left
behind
Heather Ramsdell
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I
thought of the
pit which used to be
right next to the building, the
bottomless pit that had inspired
shivers of fear at night, not
only in me but in all the pretty
children, girls, and adults who
lived on all the floors.... They
were afraid of the secret inside
themselves as if fearful of a
past sin that could not stay
buried in the past for all
eternity. Eventually they forgot
about the pit, its memories and
secrets as well as what it
contained, like instinctive
animals who scratch some dirt to
conceal their disgrace. One
morning, waking up from a black
nightmare that seethed with human
faces, I discovered that the pit
had been covered over. It was
then that I understood with
horror, gripped by the same
nightmarish feeling, that the pit
had been turned inside out, and
it now rose
out of the site that
was once called the pit. They had
a new way of referring to this
new space that brought mystery
and death up to our very windows;
they called this dark well the
air shaft.
Orhan
Pamuk
from The Black
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