Mind boggling sentence of the day

[tree_and_leaf]

“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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ff.net in becoming more tasteful shock

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

Just a quick look in the Pit of Voles returns 22 hits (mostly, it has to be said, "poems what I wrote after reading this book at school", and no actual slash, as far as I could see). According to a New York times article I turned up by typing the highly ill-advised words "anne frank slash" into Google (clear that cache!) there were 42 pieces of Anne Frank fan fiction at ff.net in 2004. So it seems things have actually improved.

Re: ff.net in becoming more tasteful shock

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, that's a good sign. I think.