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Pope Francis wearing a large  D. H. Lawrence pendant necklace   D. H. Lawrence famously declared that there was no real battle between hims...

Sid Vicious Versus the Crucified   (SA/2024) [1] The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life;  Sid Vi...

Lasciate ogni speranza per il 2024     I don't like - and have never liked - the Irish rock band U2.   But that isn't to say they ha...

    I.    'Lord of the Dance' is one of those hymns we were expected to sing when I was a young child at school which I truly hated....

Most of their time, tigers pad and slouch in burning peace. Yet they also drink blood. [1]     I.    Although I wouldn't name it as on...

The Good Shepherd Bernhard Plockhorst (1825-1907)     I.    Whilst the ancient Greeks - even Plato - ultimately found the idea of a kindly ...

Late Roman marble copy of a Kriophoros by the ancient Greek sculptor Kalamis  (5th-century BC)     Many of us have what might be termed an ...

    I.    As even a neopagan nihilist such as myself knows, Mass, which incorporates Holy Communion, is the central rite within the Catholic...

La douleur n'est pas mon fort ...          Sitting here, with toothache, waiting to see the dentist, one recalls the line by Ernst Jüng...

Apple with maggot linocut by linocutboy on tumblr.com     I.    In a short piece of fragmentary writing, D. H. Lawrence laughably declares h...

  Sat at home, surrounded by screens, I am no longer anywhere,  but rather everywhere in the world at once, in the midst of a universal ban...

O fangeuse grandeur! sublime ignominie!     I.    I've always been fond of a bit of base materialism, thus my fascination with the works...

  Detail from an illustration in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), depicting the assumption of a hirsute Mary Magdalene     I.    Hair fetishi...