CoL49 (1) I Want to Kiss Your Feet [PC 13]

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Another reference:

"Angelo, then, evil Duke of Squamuglia, has perhaps ten years before the
play's opening murdered the good Duke of adjoining Faggio, by poisoning
the feet on an image of Saint Narcissus [yes, this paragraph is an
allusive treasure trove, HR], Bishop of Jerusalem, in the court chapel,
which feet the Duke was in the habit of kissing every Sunday at Mass."
(p. 65, 1967 Jonathan Cape edition)

Dick Wharfinger, "Courier's Tragedy"


Heikki

On Fri, 8 May 2009, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> "I Want to Kiss Your Feet" is a riff off of "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iim6s8Ea_bE
>
> [dig the totally bogus lip-synch]
>
> Throw in "She Loves You" from Mucho's Gaian acid epiphany:
>
> 	"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was one of two Beatles songs
> 	(along with "She Loves You") to be later recorded in German,
> 	entitled, "Komm, gib mir deine Hand". Odeon, the German arm
> 	of EMI (the parent company of The Beatles' record label,
> 	Parlophone Records) was convinced that The Beatles' records
> 	would not sell in Germany unless they were sung in German.
> 	The Beatles detested the idea . . .
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Hold_Your_Hand
>
> . . . one can situate the book at the first blush of Beatlemania in
> America. Probably March 29?May 17, 1964.
>
> 	By April, 1964, the band's singles occupied the top five spots on
> 	the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
>
> http://classicrock.about.com/od/beatles/a/beatles_history_3.htm
>
> Naturally, it also contains a reference to something religious and
> aberrant:
>
> 	Millions of pilgrims with loving pressure have worn down the
> 	feet of the statue of Saint Paul in Rome with their lips. At the
> 	beginning of the Holy Roman Empire it was the custom for the
> 	faithful to kiss the right hand of the Papal Father. In the eighth
> 	century, a rather passionate woman took liberties and
> 	according to legend, the Pope cut off his hand in disgust. The
> 	custom of kissing the Pope's right foot was adapted as more
> 	appropriate. Pope Innocent III(1198-1216) had kings and
> 	churchmen kiss his feet. Today the act of homage involves
> 	kissing the Pontiff's right shoe. Lips are aimed at the cross-
> 	depicted on the shoe and the act is either taken as a tribute to
> 	his authority or the simulation of servitude
>
> http://biblefeet.blogspot.com/2009/04/precis-on-clerical-foot-kissing.html
>
>