M & D from Joseph's post

[Joseph Tracy]

yes, that impossible tension. But here sensuality is connected to slavery, and that abuse is not implicit in the sensuality itself. Here it is a division in the soul because of the desire to hang onto both the Bible and the power/sensuality  provided by the Voc. The Bible in callvinist interp giving them the status of chosen, graced, saved and justifying their relation to those perceived as heathen, lost,  those who may be redeemed only in subservience to divine order from the fairest to the darkest.
On Feb 13, 2015, at 6:14 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> "One metaphor of this juxtaposition that I found telling was the girls
> oiling Joanna's skin so that it won't be as the dry pages of the
> Bible."
> 
> I also saw this as a metaphor for the sensual, the paganish embrace of
> the body vs. the way the Bible has created repression from its pages.
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