sexy lady drive me crazy: give me what you got ...

EEN
van de
allermooiste beelden
die ik zo nu en dan op~
roep is dat van de 'eenheid'
van alles wat er IS? Tussen 'oerknal'
& 'big crunch' 'n soort van mentale 'cartoon'
die uitdrukt wat was,
wat erop volgde & hoe
't 'eindigde met inventarisatie van wat was als iets
dat voortdurend aanwezig in beweging is als
achtergrondruis vol van bewustwording,
gevoel, verstand, in~
& overzicht.

Including
different Christian
solutions to all kinds
of human problems with or without
emphasis on our marriages, divorces,
childbirth, sexual differentiations, and what not, as
forms of 'martyrdom' suggesting different interpretations of possible meanings of menstrual & seminal purity for Jewish and Christian women & men, children,
animals, plants, societies, cultures
& imaginations!

THE USE
OF A CLAIM OF MENSTRUATION
AS A MEANS OF "SELF~DEFENSE" AS MENTIONED IN THE STORY
OF BERURIAH'S SISTER ['SOME TIME AGO'] SUGGESTS THIS MOTIVE ALSO,
MOTIVES THAT GO BACK AS FAR AS THREE~ OR EVEN FOURTHOUSAND YEARS. FOR INSTANCE RACHEL CLAIMING TO BE MENSTRUATING IN ORDER TO TRICK HER FATHER OUT OF HIS HOUSEHOLD GODS & COUNTLESS OTHER 'SEXUAL' ALLEGATIONS & 'SAUCY' INCLUSIONS CONCERNING ERECTIONS & PROCREATIONAL 'FUN'
& FAULT?

OUR
FORMER DISCUSSION
OF THE DIDASCALIA SUGGESTS AS WELL THAT
PERHAPS THE EXCLUSION OF WOMEN FROM THE STUDY OF TORAH
AMONG RABBINIC JEWS WAS NOT AS TOTAL
AS IMAGINED!

THERE IS
A PASSAGE FROM THE TOSEFTA,
ALSO PRESERVED IN THE PALESTINIAN TALMUD, THAT READS:
"GONNORHEICS, MENSTRUANTS AND PARTURIENTS ARE
PERMITTED TO READ THE TORAH, TO STUDY MISHNA,
MIDRASH, RELIGIOUS LAW AND AGGADA, BUT MEN
WHO HAVE HAD A SEMINAL EMISSION
MAY NOT"
{Berakhot, ch. 2,
para. 12}.

Even
those who
have taken this
passage seriously as an
original halakhic text have understood
it as reflecting only a utopian possibility, not
a reality of women studying Torah in antiquity as such.

The imprisoned heroine comprises a study of how tension between
virginal ideal and valorization of marriage was textualized and to a certain degree
resolved in the Gesta of the Roman martyrs, a genre of fictional martyrology
roughly contemporaneous with Prudentius, The Virgin and the Bride: this was done in part by
"encouraging married women to imagine themselves
as the spiritual heirs of the pre-Constantinian martyrs."
I suggest that the example of Agnes or Eulalia (especially Eulalia!) was more likely
to encourage young women to be nuns than wives. Even Anastasia's exemplum, as discussed at
length, would hardly inspire women to marrige. Nevertheless, it is clear that the Catholic Church
was powerfully engaged in a struggle to validate the spirituality of both the virgin and the bride
by the fifth century. It is important to note that the thesis is that an ancient Christian tradition
of validation of the chastity of the
matrona
was threatened by the rise
of the ascetic movement in the fourth century, while my instinct, not nearly as educated
of course, suggests that the needs of the post-Constantinian Church would require
emphasis on the spiritual vocations of those who were the pillars of everyday
society. Thus, I would ne inclined to lean a priori to the option that the
"emphasis on the spirituality of the
matrona
in the Liber
and the Passio [of St. Anastasia]" finds its "context in
the battle between orthodoxy and Manichaeism of
fifth-century Rome," as opposed to the option
that they "represent a last flicker of the
traditionalism of late fourth-century
senatorial Christian". I would thus
argue that the argument with
respect to the contrast inbe-
tween 'the frenzied craving
for continence of the hero-
ines of the Apocryphal
Acts and the 'pudor
of the nonorable wife Anastasia'
strongly leads in the direction of the first option?!
Note these highly charged concatenation of the menstruation
as a space for some female autonomy and the trickster role as well!
It remains an open question to which extent the choice of the virginal option was
or was not a 'free-will' decision in at least one fourth-century Christian environment?

Kortom:
tussen de
'primitieve' holenmens {m/v/k}
van ooit & de 'moderne' mens van nu en hier liggen
talloze tussenstadia van bewustzijnsverruimingen & ~vernauwingen.
Men veroorzaakt kruistochten, genocides, kolonisaties, holle & opgestufte praatjes in alle mogelijke & onmogelijke gaatjes! Onkent gaskamers & massavernietigingsstrategie & presenteert
die bijna 2000 jaar van zogenaamd 'christendom' als voorlopige Veronicakroon
op de RTL~schepping als betrof het een schoonheidswedstrijd tussen idiote
religie, filosofie, politiek & wetenschap met de paus als Job van Kut,
Georgio Walker Bushbush als gemankeerde Churchill, Stalin, Mao
bao pao & verneukt malkander bij 't leven via machtige kathe-
dralen, internationale grootaandeelhouders, lul-
smoesjesverkopers & [il]legale
handelaars in flauwe kul,
bullshitelectronica &
volksverlakkerij.