A nothing
we were, are,
shall remain, flowering:
the nothing–, the
no one’s rose.
— Paul Celan
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Leo’ si Kristeva
Leonardo da Vinci – Virgin and Child with St. Anne (c. 1503)
Leonardo […] envisioned a female Trinity […] The angle of Mary’s knee points to the oval shape created by her arms. In the group of three feet, the one on the far left creates a mirror image of Mary’s right foot. Finally, in the heart of the construction, the curves of Mary’s body draw the angles toward an ellipse that points to Jesus, who completes the curve by turning his head. He is aided by the lamb, who reinforces this backward gaze […] [T]he Louvre canvas depicts the source of the history of Christianity as mutual mirror-effects.
– Julia Kristeva, New Maladies of the Soul (1995).
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Uneori ni se pare mai putin decat credem.
Studiolo
“If he is such an expert on Dante, let him lecture on Dante, to the Studiolo.”
Sogliato hissed the name as though it were the Inquisition.
“Let him face them extempore, next Friday if he can.”
The Studiolo, named for an ornate private study, was a small, fierce group of scholars who had ruined a number of academic reputations and met often in the Palazzo Vecchio. Preparing for them was regarded as a considerable chore, appearing before them a peril.
– Thomas Harris, Hannibal.
Dog-matica
Follower of Joos van Cleve – The Lamentation
(detaliu)
Ziceam pe undeva pe aici ca pentru mine Craciunul reprezinta anticamera Rastignirii [x] [x].
Am dat foarte recent peste urmatoarea zgarietura lasata de Karl Barth in Dogmatica lui:
‘‘[T]he message of Christmas already includes within itself the message of Good Friday.’’
Desfacaturi
Alice Tippit
[I]n the messianic night, the creature’s gesture is loosed of any magical-juridical-divinatory density, and becomes simply human and profane. Here, there is no longer any sign or marvel in the divinatory sense; but, since all signs have their fulfillment, man is freed by signs […] Only the representatives of the world of magic and law, the Magi, are featured in an act of adoration – at least to begin with, before they melt into the nameless crowd: elsewhere, all ritual traces dissolve into the economic innocence of the quotidian.
– Agamben, ‘Fable and History: Considerations on the Nativity Crib’
Salonul alb
‘‘The dangerous passion for absolute purity.’’
— Anna Kamienska.
Toujours
– Pascal Quignard.
From the booklet for Jordi Savall – Tous les matins du monde: dix ans après (2001).