tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post7903434528192420209..comments2023-09-10T07:45:26.755-04:00Comments on The Neighbors Will Hear: ExtasisTEDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07765245186357910074noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-26935828807594444332008-07-31T05:30:00.000-04:002008-07-31T05:30:00.000-04:00mmh, maybe I should - and I agree this would be a ...mmh, maybe I should - and I agree this would be a nice change for Yves. I will draw a line at gitanes brunes though - bad breath and nicotine-stained fingers and teeth are not exactly high on my priority list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-30505957663200086822008-07-30T10:15:00.000-04:002008-07-30T10:15:00.000-04:00Will, I saw some renderings of St. Sebastian while...Will, I saw some renderings of St. Sebastian while in Italy, but I looked up more on your suggestion, and they are indeed smokin'. I really need to find a contemporary interpretation to hang in the bedroom. It would be an inspiration to all bottoms.<BR/><BR/>Anon, I find your literacy entirely beyond reproach. I like "extasis" so much more than "ecstasy" that I intend to use it as much as possible, provided that I can do so without sounding pretentious. I didn't do any research before adopting your term, but I had assumed that you were using the Latin. I didn't realize that the term came from the Greek via the Latin. From one or other of the online dictionaries:<BR/><BR/>[Origin: 1350–1400; ME extasie < MF < ML extasis < Gk ékstasis displacement, trance, equiv. to ek- ec- + stásis stasis] <BR/><BR/>Displacement is a very good term for it, n'est-ce pas?<BR/><BR/>By the way, I'm pretty sure that I got all the details of your life precisely right, so if you aren't currently doing exactly what I said you're doing, then you'll want to make the appropriate changes. Think of poor Yves, all alone in his atelier, with nothing to paint and no man to come home to.TEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07765245186357910074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-54713355037046475442008-07-30T10:11:00.000-04:002008-07-30T10:11:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.TEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07765245186357910074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-42534152349365945452008-07-30T08:56:00.000-04:002008-07-30T08:56:00.000-04:00Ha! I was somewhat embarrassed at having written e...Ha! I was somewhat embarrassed at having written ecstasy in a Spanish sort of way, but I thought few people would see it, buried in the comments. Now the whole world can see I'm illiterate. <BR/><BR/>Strong coffee, gitanes brunes, large endowment, avocat, etc... Let's say that at least some of your assumptions are correct!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-10683799836345831242008-07-29T15:14:00.000-04:002008-07-29T15:14:00.000-04:00As you are literate in so many areas, I am sure yo...As you are literate in so many areas, I am sure you will have done this, but to observe sexual/religious extasis in art fully, check out St. Sebastian paintings and sculpture from the Renaissance and later. That is, after he ceased being a grizzled old Roman soldier and became an astonishingly beautiful boy transfixed at being penetrated by the arrows or, as in several famous versions, suggestively penis-length darts.<BR/><BR/>I pubesced jacking off to St.Sebastian, whose image I was encouraged to venerate in Catholic school. No further comment.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.com