Lucerna corpus

Lucerna corpus est oculos...

Ev. s Matt. 6,22

Ecstasy Ecology Etymology

Ecstasy

Two mornings ago, the Torah lection of Mass was Father Abraham's stern banishing Hagar with her infant son to certain death in the wilderness. He provided some bread, and a skin of water, and placed these, with the infant, on its mother's shoulder.

And they set off, neither pleading, nor protesting.

With the skin of water consumed, and, perish as they both must, the mother set the infant in the bushes to die, while she sat down a good distance away - a bowshot, to be exact - but out of sight, for she could not bear to watch the infant's last moments.

The child cried out and wept.

Who can describe, or imagine, the mother's anguish?

The Angel of the Lord heard the infant's cry, and roused its mother from benumbed delirium: wake, see, here is a skin, and there, a well; give the infant to drink.

And now, who can express the ecstasy of this mother..

quæ videns puteum aquæ..

Genesis 21,19

Ecology

Here is a fascinating thought; an integral personal ecology, proposed in HH Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato sì: a deeply interwoven fabric of environmental, economic, social, cultural, and daily life concerns.

A buoyant sexuality, and its essential sexual health (WHO 1974 Declaration), cannot but have an inspiring part here.

In a cheerful anthology of erotica, I Colori del Sesso (iBooks), perhaps the narratives might have been enriched by an awareness of this integral ecology, which can be an insurance against predictable imagery unable to probe a deeper reality.

Who can say?

Etymology

I enjoyed a rich study of the root κλει.. in the Greek Lexicon of Liddell and Scott:

• a kind of astringent pill, or suppository
• boom of an harbour
• of silence
• rowing bench
• of promontories
• clausula, cadence (poetry)
• door opening in the street
• street-door
• inner-door
• sluice gates
• brothel
• shrine
• that can be shut
• part of a ship
• clitoris
• a gem
• a pearl
• renowned
• famous
• splendid
• slope
• hillside
• celebrate

Ecstasy, Ecology, Etymology bring food for thought with great mystery of seeing, and touching:

palpando.. in fide solidatur

Liturgia Horarum III:1331

as Saint Gregory the Great expresses for today's Feast of the Apostle of India, Saint Thomas.

La revanche du clitoris

Le clitoris doit trouver son propre sens. Celui du plaisir partagé..

La revanche du Clitoris
par Damien Mascret et Maïa Mazaurette

In their little text (French) Damien Mascret and Maïa Mazaurette offer a fascinating promotion of the clitoris.

The authors rehearse the obligatory quantitative research that rides high above intimate pragmatism after the dust has cleared.

The contribution of social studies to help elucidate female sexual pleasure, (Richter, J 2009) has yet to materialise.

Defining female sexual pleasure almost entirely by the penetrative model and its cultural accretions is insufficient.

Texts by these authors, and others, such as Dunel, G, offer quiet accounts, in vivo, which might elucidate qualitatively, in ways the mighty quantitative studies cannot.

For males, these intimate revelations can suggest a personal integral ecology not unlike that conceived in the encyclical Laudato sì promulgated by HH Pope Francis June 18.

The clitoris and its mysterious contribution to sexual pleasure are far from exhaustively explained.

Clitoral portrayal in film, art, erotica, fantasy, that shared pleasure may well reside to a greater extent outside penetrative exchange, emancipating the naked male image for more than an homoerotic audience, the authors suggest might go in the right direction for realising their aspiration:

Le clitoris doit trouver son propre sens. Celui du plaisir partagé..

The Fig Tree

Leaving Bethany

where he wept, and raised a friend

in the distant

a fig tree in leaf

si quid forte invenerit in ea

Ev s Marc 11,13

Though rich in foliage

there was no fruit

His sentiment

may none eat from you

The cleansing of The Temple

The fig had withered

but

with faith

a mountain

might be translocated

to

the midst of the sea

What can this mean?

Dunel, G

Men should appreciate their sexe

it confers pleasure

How do I communicate nudity?

How do I receive nudity?

Relaxed communicative

fruitful nakedness

disentangled

from the nudity

illustrated

for well-defined genres

of taste

and demand

foliage without fruit

Monsignor T

conveying The Holy See's

aspiration for

The World Summit

on 

The Information Society

promote human communication

sharing words and images

good communication is

always an

human achievement

in technical emvironments

that are safe

and human-enriching

be attentive to

what you create

promote

and share

the art of listening

to appreciate

human richness

engagement with others

alerts one to basic desires:

to love

to be loved

protection

security

meaning

purpose

shared-concern

for the well being of all

rather than

unbridled competition

But what does

the account of The Fig Tree

signify to me?

The cycle of bearing fruit

had not been violated

The opportunity of a fruitiful persona

in season

and out of season

The flamboyant foliage

was conventional

Fruit out of season

would have symbolised

an

unique fecundity

a

coherent persona

And the withering Fig?

Transmit pleasure

appreciate

deeper attributes

fruitfullness

of personality

in

all situations

of opportunity

Based on

The Gospel in today's Liturgy Nova Vulgata

Dunel, G

Vatican News

The New Jerome Biblical Commentary

Influences of Mei-Rong and Hsieh 2007

To Explore

Dominica Pentecostes

Today's reflection for the solemnity

prout Spiritus dabit eloqui..

Acta Apostolorum 2,4

as the Spirit gave utterance..

To explore

..To explore misconception and myth..

Mr Stef de Klerk, 2003.

Mr Stef de Kelrk's remark is related to my recent study of Mei-Rong and Hsieh 2007 on gender differences of emotional literacy, taking some fourteen points for closer personal encounter to enlarge my expressive repertoire.

One idea for this exercise: I sketch abstracts from Mr Stef de Klerk's photographs.

Today, Pentecost, eloquence in all expressing, is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Un perroquet gigantesque

M Gustave FLAUBERT (Un Cœur Simple) paints Félicité's demise

Tous s'agenouillièrent. Il se fit un grand silence. Et les encensoirs allant à pleine volée glissaient sur leurs chaînettes.

Une vapeur d'azur monta dans le chambre de Félicité.. et, quand elle exhala son dernier souffle, elle crut voir, dans les cieux entr'ouverts, un perroquet gigantesque, planant au-dessus de sa tête.

Professeur Jacques BRÉHANT (1907 - 2000) remarked

..la mort est materiéllement la fin de toute communication..

Thanatos. Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris 1976

..death makes material end of all communication..

Professeur BRÉHANT reminds me of the teachers of the Hôtel Dieu de Rouen at the time M FLAUBERT's father M Achille-Cléophas was Chief Surgeon.

To an Adminstrator whose archives of a thousand years I went to view along with selected graves recently, I remarked

..death makes material end of all communication.. In substance, this is quite so, but Archives can bring new life to death and document, to enrich our present.

Google +

I had a notice that JK in the Ivory Coast region had added me to Google+. Thank you.

To explore misconception and myth (Mr Stef de Klerk ut supra); so too, the close of Paschal Time and

..prout Spiritus dabit eloqui..

Acta Apost. ut supra

Siva Icon and My Boyhood

Five Texts

During the past week, five texts have given me enjoyable study

• A text by Mme Gracia Dunel 
• The Erotic Mind by Doctor J Morin
• Professor C Ram-Prasad's review of an Indologist and Sanskrit Scholar's book
• The US Military Health Notice Mercury on the welfare of women staff
• Mme Julie Clarini's review in Le Monde des Livres 8 mai

Mme Gracia Dunel

This is an enchanting récit. The original French is rendered by the author herself in English, and for all that, she has afforded readers of English the intimate observations of a French Woman in ways that are positively enriching (WHO Declaration 1974).

Doctor J Morin

On the resources of The Erotic Mind Doctor Morin suggests practical approaches to engaging, more purposefully, the rich osmosis with which individual personal scripts endow life.

Professor C Ram-Das

In the past week's Times Literary Supplement the Professor crafted a measured review of an Indologist and Sanskrit Scholar's opus.

Where does the iconography of Lord Siva settle in the WHO 1974 Declaration?

What is the cultural heritage of an integrated Hindu eroticism à la UNESCO?

Enrich. Enhance. Communicate.

The icon of Lord Shiva in my boyhood was communicated by osmosis.

On the border town, Tibetan, Lepcha, Nepali, Hindu were the principal religious customs. A mélange of smell, sound, taste, colour, squalor, dereliction, neglect, admixed with boyhood sexuality cf Doctor Morin ut supra.

The icon was diffuse, and composed, as the fascia of the over sixty-year old classic Omega Seamaster of my late Mother. As a child, I have gazed on the comforting watchface of this elegant timepiece, that eleoquence cf Mme Dunel ut supra.

The icon was raging in ferocity.

There was a Lord Shiva devotee marked with deep-cadmiun and vermilion symbols, who wandered the main street of the town. He wore a voluminous turmeric raw cotton turban. His stocky neck was begarlanded with enormous tulsi beads.

Pinned to his tunic were framed images of Lord Siva and his cohort of lesser, but equally terrifying deities, and rupee notes of various denominations.

He was well-nourished. His skin was riven from exposure to ultraviolet radiation at high altitudes. His physiognomy was Lepcha, but his demeanour was quite Hindu, presenting an animistic shaman sadhu patina.

This devotee was in a perpetual state of devotional hysteria, as he brandished a trident tipped with scarlet pigment and fabric ribbon fluttering hypnotically. He spat continously, as he rang a bell of Benares brass in counterpoint with the frenetic throb of the damaru, and, to passers-by, especially those in Western dress, he would mutter his expectations: four annas, one rupee, five rupees, hundred rupees, repeating this chant in ever-increasing tempo till it became an undifferentiated purr. The sheer amounts paralaysed a schoolboy's thoughts. The coda of his mutterings, and spitting was the refrain Ootimaha, Ootimaha, as he stamped the menacing trident into the ground clashing its bells and religious tassels, and, to schoolboys, this was his name, which instantly conjured up the terror of his visage.

As we approached the town, once spotted, the schoolboy would alert us all with the cry Ootimaha, la! and, like a pack of jackals, the alarm would be broadcast in full chorus, muddling apprehension even more.

This terrifying personality positioned himself where three main roads converged and led, passing mountains of sale-roti, singhara, peeyajoo, and sweeatmeat in a shop, where a man in a dhoti ladelled the contents of a six-foot diameter cauldron of boiling cooking oil, and on into the lower town and car-stand, and the mela-ground. You could not avoid him.

Heaven help us. Some schoolboys, intoxicated by the lure of terror, would call out a taunt and speed away, leaving others, some blissfully unaware, to face the aroused Lord Shiva devotee, who would fly demented, pirouetting, trident flailing all and sundry, vehemently protesting his Lord Shiva incantations, and spitting in volcanic jets, unchallenged even by the ferocious Tibetan mastifs lurking about the bazar, who skulked away to refuge beneath the tarpaulins of muleteer traders, displacing enormous black pigs who protested with grunts and snorts, adding to the chaos.

For all this, the devotee possessed elegant conviction, however madly expressed. For all his terror and noise, he never uttered an obscenity, at least not an audible one. His sexual probity was unimpeachable, certainly in public.

Like the Indologist and Sanskrit Scholar of Professor Ram-Prasad's review, the Lord Shiva devotee was a trained dancer, and he drew upon his kinæsthetic registers to intensify hysteria and communicate shivaism in its brand, particular, to the trading-route town.

Lord Siva phallo-lingam, and theologico-lingam in psychosexual cultural paradox sat innocuously in my schoolboy mind as I relished a repast of curry, rice, dhal, bhaji, garnishes of pickle and salad, lassi, mango, and vibrant polychrome sweetmeats. A digestif  paan was out of the question because the boarding school staff would spot the evidence, with disciplinary consequences.

No tensions here. Just appetite and icon.

Mercury

It is not irreverent to mention my last but one text, the US Military Health Notice Mercury, which devotes its current issue to the Reproductive, Psychological, and Physical Welfare of Women staff, with special concern for women deployed in unfavourable environments.

The whole report gives me a great appreciation for the philosophy, public health, and operational health to promote the welfare of women, and families in their total life of deployment and civilian setting.

I recalled Mme Dunel's récit ut supra.

Mme Julie Clarini

Mme Clarini concluded her Le Monde des Livres review with this citation 

..comme une signature érotique sur son propre corps..

The icon of Lord Siva has its poly-registers in bustling India, and certainly, colourfully, in my schoolboyhood.

What then is the cultural heritage of an integrated Hindu eroticism for my persona?

Eroticisation of Words

Fais-moi Jouir

..montrer doux, attentif, attentionné. Egalement sauvage et fougeux, mais toujours avec respect.

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Undated

Words

I was struck by the unforced eroticisation of the words in this passage. Every word is charged with sensual appeal. What economy of diction here. How amply secured its purpose.

My grateful acknowledgements

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Le Petit Robert 

Édition 2015

My Journal A Pedagogy of Desire

CFUR81 folios 92-94