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STORIES OF REBIRTH
#AMOUR: OSCAR WILDE, DE PROFUNDIS
February,the month of love! Give yourself a special moment, let yourself be carried awayby the absolute love as in great masters’ thoughts.
Can a letter from a wounded andembittered heart become a universal literary classic? Yes of course, if theauthor is Oscar Wilde!
"... Love is powered by imagination, so we become wiser than we know,better than we feel, nobler than we are: so we can see life as a whole: that’show, and how only we can understand others in their true and ideal relations.Only what is noble and nobly conceived can feed Love. But anything can feed Hate."
OscarWilde, De Profundis
Oscar Mondadori (Italian edition)
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#amour: Plutarco, Sull'amore
February,the month of love! Give yourself a special moment, let yourself be carried awayby the absolute love as in great masters’ thoughts.
The funny ambiguities of love in Plutarch’s Greece: daily adventures underthe wings of the almighty Eros.
"... The same impression you have made me a little while ago: I sawyou trying to drag Eros one towards the quarters of the men, the other towardsthose of the women. But you all agreed to consider it a supreme, divine good;and I told myself that it's not surprising that this passion has so much powerand such a high regard, when even people who would have every reason to rejectit and to hold it back, wherever it comes from, rather feed it and praise itwithin themselves. "
Plutarch, On love
Ed. Adelphi (Italian edition)
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#Amour: Jarry, L'amore assoluto
February, the month of love! Give yourself a special moment, let yourself be carried away ny the absolute love as in great masters' thoughts.
Absolute love and madness, a daring and shocking transfiguration of the Genesis and of the divine word.
"…And in the evening they metagain, while the notary was cradling the digestive hours, as he used to do inhis secluded study until dawn, equipped with a flask of blond alcohol, thewarble of the saw between the mahogany wood arabesques that he kills andreanimates, Emmanuel and Varia, without a word of explanation or transition. If their mouths clung, like a bug to his fellow on the other side of a mirror, itwas to hold - to anywhere else - the fall of the bodies into a swoon. And iftheir arms encircled the circumnavigation of their caresses, it was to tightenthe improbability of their presences gathered up until the condensation of thereal, which does not escape. They followed the complicit whim of the Bird’scoil, with a beak full of needles, of the notary, to what they had not dared,suggested by the sound of the sea between the two halves of their limestone bed."
Alfred Jarry,L’amour absolu (Absolute love)
Ed. Adelphi (Italian edition)
STORIES OF REBIRTH
#AMOUR: Plato, SYMPOSIUM
February, the month of love! Give yourself a special moment, let yourself be carried away by the absolute love as in great masters’ thoughts
HOW TO LOVE IN FULL HARMONY? LOVE IS CREATING, IS "GIVING BIRTH" IN THE BEAUTIFUL.
LOVE IS THE DEMON THAT SEEKS TO OWN GOOD FOREVER.
“…The object (love, n.d.r.) which they have in view is birth in beauty, whether of body or soul.' '… 'I mean to say, that all men are bringing to the birth in their bodies and in their souls. There is a certain age at which human nature is desirous of procreation—procreation which must be in beauty and not in deformity; and this procreation is the union of man and woman, and is a divine thing; for conception and generation are an immortal principle in the mortal creature, and in the inharmonious they can never be. But the deformed is always inharmonious with the divine, and the beautiful harmonious.”
PLATO, Symposium