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“You say I killed you—haunt me then!”

“Your veins are full of ice water—but mine are boiling.”

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Lintons as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”

“The beauty of the house is immeasurable; it’s Kindness infinite.”

“Venus is no longer creating civilization, not even just being contained by it; civilization is reveling in her castration—the armless Venus feeds a ruin lust.”

“Venus was (now) a thinly veiled excuse for disturbing and degenerate sexism and racism.”
()- my own notes

“Venus was becoming not an immortal Olympian, but a flesh-and-blood, Western European matriarch.”

“Even in astrology, ‘Venus dominates Mars, never vice versa.’”

“Because Aphrodite-Venus was about to become a metaphor, no longer for ambition and for prurient passion, but for purist philosophy.”

“The equation between Aphrodite as a nurturer or protector of children, a Kourotrophos, and the Virgin Mary is obvious.”

“So, counter intuitively, in the monotheistic climate of Christendom, Aphrodite survived a faith revolution—in no less a guise then the Virgin Mary herself.”

“Aphrodite-Venus was coming to represent some thing that should, by rights, be kept under wraps—the hedonistic possibilities of Tryphé, the luxurious good life.”

“But the tug of love over the goddess between her new adopters, the West, and her motherland, the East, would continue-“

“Venus, with her violent origins and her choice of the war god Ares-Mars as a lover, was an appropriate deity for Rome to take up with.”

“Aphrodite was far more then just a pretty face; she was a sounding board for human behaviour and for ethical and cultural dilemmas.”

“It is pleasure and pain, sex and death all mixed up.”

“The Greeks had perpetuated a troubling trope:stories abounded about Aphrodite’s connection to sexual abuse.”

“A trend has been fueled. Aphrodite-Venus would be very hard to keep her clothes on and to command serious respect.”

“The goddess we imagine to be typically naked was, in fact, through much of antiquity, typically clothed.
But then she started to shed her raiment.
From fourth century BC onward, Aphrodite is systematically stripped.”