Month: Jul 2022
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Ben Without Bull
Doesn’t add much but an obelisk’s tip symbolically represents benben, a primeval mound which rose flarelike from oceans of ever-enfolding chaos to became the first habitable land. In certain versions of this cosmogony, a ‘great god’ or ‘father god’ uses the terra firma as a foothold for the construction of the cosmos, and amidst waves…
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The Maid and the Menace
Would recommend anyone read J.K. Huysmans book La Bas, a slab of French decadence with prose purpler than a Roman Emperor’s cloak sporting a black eye, drinking Ribena. Book concerns one man’s attempt to construct a biography of holy heretic and reputed serial child murderer Gilles De Rais, Joan of Arc’s closest general and friend…