Back to AtD: p. 880 Carnesalve
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 5 15:05:48 CDT 2012
= a Counter-Carnevale, ...."an enthusiastic welcome to flesh in all its promise."
"As object of desire [speaking of vector definitions], as food, as temple, as gateway
to conditions beyond immediate knowledge."
Then v interesting stuff on the Life of Masks, in which the above is distinguished
from the masks of Carnevale..and in which "the Mask's desire was to be invisible..
..transparent yet mercilessly deceptive...as beneath...danger ruled and all was
transgressed."............
Transgression: key in human understanding? Key notion in modernism?
Anyone, anyone? Buehller?
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