She not only gets inside me, she worms her way into my heart like a snake. Deeper. All the way in. I take her in like a slave. I play my part faithfully so I, too, can get to her heart...
---adapted from Lust, Caution.
Love wears forbidden colours like the blue beneath the black. The world carries on in astonishmnet, merriment, gracefulness. The settled quality of a life at ease with itself, the splendour of abundance, of borrowed finery, the peace of not knowing. The given-ness of the world, Their love of fate knows no bounds. Your lip curls, even though you're an oriental.
But elsewhere, far away, there are hands that would know, eyes that would tell. The grey of time passed through us. For a while it seemed as if the universe itself was nothing but a series of grey lines. And it lasted but a moment, like a snowflake falling on your face. But the moment was all. The queen shed a tear, and it fell like a shard of glass into my eye. Now everything is tinged with the blueness of her soul.
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6 comments:
"And it lasted but a moment, like a snowflake falling on your face. But the moment was all."
:-)
as you friend Swiss says, synchronicity! :-P
May I suggest that your colors are revealed in the image of "Saint" George at the top of your site.
What does that image represent?
Essentially the psychotic split in the heart and psyche of Western man altogether.
The primal split that results in the never ending dualist wars: spirit vs flesh; male vs female; left vs right; light vs darkness; "religion" vs secularism/materialism
And in the realm of human politics East vs West; capitalist vs communist; Islam vs the West; or even the West vs the rest.
And now the right vs left culture wars.
Manifested and dramatised on to the world stage as HIS-story. Or never-ending fight to the death wars which have now in the 21st Century, brought the entire world to the brink of both cultural and ecological melt-down.
Altogether summed up in the millenia long war against the body or feminine, or woman altogether. And the pattern that Woman or Shakti represents altogether.
Woman and the body altogether IS the world.
The dragon is the generative life force. Everything to do with the organic integrity of both the human body-mind complex, and by extension the entire Green Domain from which all living-breathing-feeling life emerges.
What Dylan Thomas called the Green Fuse.
The knight with his lance, always battling to keep nature, and woman under control, is the male principle divorced from its inherent heart connection to the Prior Unity of existence-being.
And hence always deeply afraid of being over-whelmed by nature, especially the nature that surges in his body-mind complex.
Thank you anon. for that profound comment. i don't think I can do justice to it without thinking about it more.
Agree with you about there being a split but not quite sure whether :
a) it's fundamental
b) whether Saint George represents this
or
c) those are *my* colours.
b) But it's a fascinating point you make. I think Saint George here signifies not the taming of nature/the irrational/woman or the "control" of them but-to use the first lines of this post-an absorption of the snake into the heart.
a) whilst i totally agree with you ..that the "v's" are very much part of the world (and not just a problem of 'western' man) surely there's also synthesis, a meeting of man and woman. Dualism cannot be fundamental, no? Gnosticism is a heresy and so I can't imagine the Orthodox accepting these tensions as fundamental.
And the unity you talk about is surely not then about control or a "prior" existence but: 'the wisdom of serpents, innocence of doves'.
But anyway, thanks for dropping by.
best wishes,
b.
roxana, I don't get that.
have you also been writing about a snow queen?
Take care,
b.
b, hi
sorry, i just meant that i posted something about snowflakes falling yesterday, hence the coincidence. not important, anyway.
yet no queens on my Bridge, they seem to dwell only under the dark skies of the Black Sun :-)
A great article, thank you for sharing it.
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