Unforeseen circumstances have meant that I don't have a cable connection yet though will have one next week. I've managed to get a nasty dial-up connection for them moment but don't really fancy blogging in the stone age so I doubt there'll be much here until I get cable sorted. To leave you with something to think about here is a quote from Odo de Cluny quoted in Michel Surya's Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography ( a review of which I'll stick up when I'm finished ):

The body's beauty lies entirely in the skin. In fact, if people could see what lay beneath the skin, blessed like the lynx of Boeotia with eyes that can see within, the very sight of women would be sickening to them: this feminine grace is nothing but suburra, blood, humours and gall. Consider what is hidden within the nostrils, the throat, the belly: filth everywhere. And we who find it repulsive to touch vomit or manure even with a fingertip, how could we wish to hold in our arms a mere bag of excrement!

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