Saturday, July 26, 2008

The Light Around The Bodies.


Photo: Zoriah Miller

It is obscured, to say the least. This alarming, but not at all surprising, article in the Times tells us so. Hide the bodies. Hide the war. Feed the Beast.
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Susan C. Dessel's, Our Backyard: A Cautionary Tale buried behind a curtain:



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Robert Bly from his 1966 book, The Light Around the Body:

COUNTING THE SMALL-BONED BODIES

Let’s count the bodies over again.

If we could only make the bodies smaller,
The size of skulls,
We could make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight!

If we could only make the bodies smaller,
Maybe we could get
A whole year’s kill in front of us on a desk!

If we could only make the bodies smaller,
We could fit
A body into a finger-ring, for a keepsake forever.
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Slayer, Eyes of the Insane, 2006:


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And this, in case you didn't arrive here via Tyler. Jesus.
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And even though I recently posted this image for something else, I'm also adding this canvas from René Smith entitled The Secret History.

1 comment:

David said...

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In related news, I caught up on most of Metalocalypse yesterday. Where YOU at?