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... face , that all perception mir- rors the self.3 But for writer and reader , his tales satisfy the need to experience a self wholly other : " Diodorus Siculus relates the story of a broken and scattered god . . . . Men have lost a face ...
... face , that all perception mir- rors the self.3 But for writer and reader , his tales satisfy the need to experience a self wholly other : " Diodorus Siculus relates the story of a broken and scattered god . . . . Men have lost a face ...
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... faces as faces . Only with other faces as flesh " ( 89 ) . At first “ un- nerved by the blind girl's infinite enclosure in herself ” ( 87 ) , Diddy manages their sightless encounter and discovers his body can be housed happily in hers ...
... faces as faces . Only with other faces as flesh " ( 89 ) . At first “ un- nerved by the blind girl's infinite enclosure in herself ” ( 87 ) , Diddy manages their sightless encounter and discovers his body can be housed happily in hers ...
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... face to face with the Antichrist : " His Head dark , deadly , in its Brain incloses a reflexion / Of Eden all perverted " ( 89 , 14-15 ) . “ A Vegetated Christ & a Virgin Eve , are the Hermaphroditic / Blasphemy " ( 90 , 34-35 ) . The ...
... face to face with the Antichrist : " His Head dark , deadly , in its Brain incloses a reflexion / Of Eden all perverted " ( 89 , 14-15 ) . “ A Vegetated Christ & a Virgin Eve , are the Hermaphroditic / Blasphemy " ( 90 , 34-35 ) . The ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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