Thursday, March 05, 2020

Golden Ass

Colorful invectives courtesy Giordano Bruno.
It also suggests the degree of his militant anger at those who opposed his intellectual agenda, dis- played for example in La cena, the first of his London dialogues, with a verse ‘‘To the Malcontent’’ warning, ‘‘Since you have confronted me with injustice, / I shall stretch and pull your skin all over; / And should my body too fall to the ground, / Your shame will be re- corded in hard diamond’’ (Jaki 1975, 42). Brandishing the invective typical of his subsequent dialogue attacks on pedants, Bruno con- cludes the Ad excellentissimum epistle with a curse on the ‘‘diluvii asinorum stercora malis aureis’’ [floods of evil golden manure from asses] who have infiltrated the university environment until ‘‘nunc cuilibet stulto et asino liceat in nostras positiones hic vel alibi’’ [now any fool and ass is allowed into our positions here and elsewhere] (2.2.78). This oxymoronic ‘‘golden manure’’ alludes to the Cicero- nian ornamentation of the Oxford rhetoricians (see Yates 1982, 137), gilding their stubborn resistance to his ideas.
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Even if you wished could manure on someones soul in th lore of magic the blowback is three fold. Best to wish for clarity of vision for all concerned. 
The power of lovers to dismember the corpus of their combined egos is a testament to all things immeasurable.




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