Tending the Garden
I was the pleased recipient this week of a consignment of books by the philosopher Michel Onfray which included L’invention du plaisir: fragments cyrénaïques. Good stuff there, such as many variants on Aristippus’s retort to those who remonstrated with him for patronizing the courtesan Lais: “I possess Lais, but am not possessed by her.” Also an appropriate epigram by Nietzsche from Human, All Too Human (#104): “No life without pleasure; the struggle for pleasure is the struggle for life.” But, shallow fellow that I am, I was immediately struck most by the ErosBloggable illustration that the good folks at Livres de Poche found for the cover, and which I now pass on to you:
A vase painting from about 430 BCE, “Woman watering phalluses.” Invention of pleasure indeed.
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Faustus, you sure know how to make this place seem like some sort of classy joint!
That isn’t water, it’s Miracle Gro
Faustus, do you know the artist’s name? That’s beautiful.
Susie