Apr. 12th, 2007

tree_and_leaf: Cartoon Nelson from Life on Mars: "Beer, mon brave?" (beer mon brave?)
“Now, I would hope that even those of us already too familiar with such erotic images from our reading of later-mediaeval mystical treatises (not to mention Rupert’s own visionary experiences†) might still find this image – of the Son arranging for his marriage to his mother in her womb – at the very least momentarily shocking, if not (as Philip seems to have intended it to be), simultaneously titillating, provocative, and yet somehow faintly repulsive (much like the Incarnation itself)"

Fulton, Rachel. 2002. From Judgement to Passion: Devotion to the Virgin Mary 800-1200. New York: Columbia University Press.

I mean... just... WHAT? Particularly the last bracketed comment. Provocative I might be persuaded to buy, but... the Incarnation of Christ? Titillating?

I wish I did have a beer.

† Rupert of Deutz. I think she means the one where he snogs the crucified Christ, but I'm not totally sure.

Also, my hot water is orange again. It looks pretty disgusting, and it's murder on the towels (anyone know how to get rust stains out? At least, I assume it's rust...

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