Fun image. Death is insistent with some recalcitrant maidens.
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Death And The Maiden
- Thread starter Jollyrei
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Another superb creation -
it recalls for me some lines of my long poem 'The Wheel':
XV
Commanded by the Executioner,
I turn my hips and walk compliantly,
feeling my hair blow free
in the cool evening breeze –
plants, rocks,
girl’s undies,
whips –
with one glance through the woodwork at the sky
I step up on the bloody stone,
and lift my shackled arms for them, prepared...
http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/the-wheel.1289/
when I wrote that, I was thinking of Raphael's 'St Catherine of Alexandria'
I think Madiosi's image echoes that!
Beautiful. "Welcome!".
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
I think that she is thinking "Opps, I am not ready!"
Beautiful. "Welcome!".
a last glance back ...
another very affecting image -
and 'run away's funny
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
Danse Macabre?
SeD
Senator
Impressive Madiosi!
Primus pilus
Magister Australis
Six interesting variations of "the kiss of death" though Pp finds the last more erotic than he would normally consider death.Seem to have fallen behind a bit.
Series 4:
oh yes, all the stuff about death and dying in renaissance love poetry
is code for orgasm/ ejaculation!
I have often thought that death could be a type of ecstasy, similar to orgasm. That would be fine with me.
Clearly, the idea is not a new one.