Do we believe that love is material, and that a piece, cut from the whole, and wrapped around the subject of our longing leaves an original gross amount diminished? Are the remnants of this love, once the fairest share is allocated a place, only scraps of less integrity which cannot provide the warmth of the [...]
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measure of love : from vermillion notebook with chord
Posted in NOTEBOOKS, l o v e on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A White Stone Day : : for Robert : : from H.
Posted in l o v e on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Free Associations from Thursday, 19 June, 2008
“A White Stone Day”
albo lapillo notare diem – in Latin
I recall this phrase distinctly from the personal diary of Charles Dodgson a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. He wrote it plainly in his journal the very day he met young Alice Liddell and took a photograph [the first] of her and her [...]
:::: augustine ::: from robert :::
Posted in l o v e, tagged from robert. on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine I,iv,4:
I am translating jouissance by ‘enjoying’ .
” To enjoy (jouir) is to cling to it (the thing) with love for its own
sake. To use something, however, is to employ it in obtaining
that which you love, provided that it is worthy of love”
“It is to be asked whether man is to be loved by [...]
