Monday, June 15, 2009

the hidden, yet fascinating object Alcibiades believed to be enclosed in the depths of Socrates’ hideous body

agalma


also "a Greek term meaning a glory, an ornament, an offering to the gods, or a little statue of a god"

also "simply the wondrous emptiness at the core of being"

2 comments:

phaneronoemikon said...

I am lager:

The dull, yet, utterly naked
beauty of the body itself
enclosed in the hideous
and empty depths
of the universe.

What I like to think
Casanova might reply with,
in the spirit of Socrates.
And far less Manichean..

Liza said...

see, if I had read your blog first, I woulda known this all along.