William Blake

The rude efficiency of our bodily sexual and bathroom parts is no doubt often a source of wry comment, but perhaps few have done better than William Blake. This excerpt from Northrop Frye’s study is on the humility of the human body in general.

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Our sight is feeble compared to the lynx; our movements stumbling and foolish compared to a bird; our strength and beauty grotesque compared to a tiger. Once we begin to think in terms of wish and desire, we find ourselves beating prison bars. Our desire to see goes far beyond any telescope. We are ashamed of our bodies, and though the shame itself is shameful, particularly when we realize that they are the forms of our souls, it is there, and it is hard to love a Creator who could, for instance, make our “places of joy & love excrementitious.”

-- Northrop Frye, “Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake”

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Miley

“Self-control is not something I’m working on.”

-- Miley Cyrus

At the end of her hosting gig at M-TV's Video Music Awards, Miley announced that she has a new album that is available for free-streaming, titled "Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz". It does not count toward her contract with RCA Records, as it is just her letting it hang out, just putting what she feels out there - pure art rather than commercial. I thought it was going to be highly disposable. However, I find quite a bit of it to be rather affecting, having much of that mellow-romantic vocal quality of "I Adore You", a personal favorite. I keep falling deeper into fandom over her.

[Source: New York Times]