Sublime

ruth

Taking a leaf from Blok, whose explicitly erotic, Pierrot-centric verse had created a scandal in Moscow, Paul began writing about himself as an innocent romantic pining for sex. He also styled himself as Gala’s puppet: a reference to The Woman and the Puppet, Symbolist Pierre Louÿs’s novel about carnal obsession.

In all our lives as daughters, there is a time when the good mother of the psyche—the one which served us appropriately and well in earlier times—turns into a too-good mother, one which by virtue of her overly safeguarding values—begins to prevent us from responding to new challenges and thereby to deeper development.

I tell people to do their own mining of stories from their own lives, and insist upon it with those I teach, especially the stories from their own heritages, for if at the least, one turns always to the tales directly from the translators of Grimms, for instance, then the tales of their personal heritage—as soon as their old ones die off—shall be

when girls and women who were tightly girdled, tightly reined, and tightly muzzled were called “nice,”

The fourth Rabbi, who was a poet, took a paper in hand and a reed and sat near the window writing song after song praising the evening dove, his daughter in her cradle, and all the stars in the sky. And he lived his life better than before.

Harpers.

light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.