Ep. 21 - Alexander Stoddart: Culture as Communion with the Dead
The Ralston College Podcast
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The Flower of Existence
If you understand life as being a sorry tour of duty, then there are certain things that redeem it. The misery of existence and its constant pressure can be released by the look of a single passage of paint on a bit of canvas. This is one of the marvels of the great tradition of mud painting in the west. Let him know, you'll see a beautiful nud by boticelli or raphael, and you will feel not the slightest stirring in your loins. How is that done? It's absolutely vertigenous activity. And how they can do it, how they can keep the painting of a nud boy or girl, that is, it is equivalent to bromide
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