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@exiliaex love these little guys

for whatever reason, mastodon isnt being very cooperative with my formatting, so please excuse my line breaks.

my translation of Baudelaire, Hymn À la Beauté.

Do you come down from the depths of the sky or out of the abyss,
O Beauty? Your gaze, infernal and divine,
Pours confusedly beneficence and crime,
And we may may for that liken you to wine.

You contain in your eye the setting sun and the dawn;
You spread perfumes like an evening storm;
Your kisses are a potion and your mouth a cask
Which makes heroes cowardly and children courageous.

Do you come out of some black chasm or descend from the stars?
Charmed destiny rides your coattails as a dog;
You scatter to fate joy and disasters,
And you govern all and never reply.

You step over corpses, Beauty, whom you mock;
Of your jewelry, Horror is not the least charming,
And Murder, among the most dear charms,
On your proud belly dance amorously.

The ephemeral sparks fly across you, candle,
Crackle, flame, and say: bless this conflagration!
The amorous panting inclined on his beauty
Has the air of the deathbound caressing his grave.

Which do you come from – the star or the inferno, what does it matter?
O Beauty! Enormous monster, dreadful, naive!
If your eye, your smile, your foot could open for for me the door
To some infinity, that I would love and have never known?

From Satan or from G-d, what does it matter? Angel or siren,
What does it matter, if you make – fairy with velvet eyes,
Rhythm, perfume, flash, o my unique queen! --
The universe less hideous and the instants less heavy?

@exiliaex girlfriend’s cat does this to me frequently
i’ll wake up at 3am and she’s yelling at me and i am like what do u want and then i move slightly and she just. loafs in my spot.

@CCym i believe we used to follow each other on twitter, at one point, so i’m pleasantly surprised to find you on mastodon

@CCym hi

@exiliaex there might be some research floating around - i’ll ask some people i work with!

@exiliaex keep me posted . . .

@exiliaex relevant, if digressive: some jews (usually chasidic, but it’s not exclusive to them) will refer to Hashem - literally meaning “the name” instead of speaking the name of g-d, except in prayer. (though, those names are themselves removed from the literal, true name of god in jewish tradition - even the tetragrammaton isn’t REALLY the name!)

it’s all very interesting, the way kabbalistic literature plays with names ………

@exiliaex for shore happy to be of service there
there’s lots of (i assume to be) plenty engaging commentary on the concept,,,, but it’s all in hebrew and i don’t read that well enough to read the talmud commentaries lmao

@exiliaex i was like “why is it reblogging my posts” and then i read this, saw, kabbalist, secret name,and was like oh. yeah. makes perfect sense actually

@exiliaex oh shit he’s talking abt the thing i was talking abt

@exiliaex relevant talmud section

@exiliaex it’s the last page past the book of psalms, since there’s a specific order of psalms recited before this for this particular ritual that i honestly have no idea about since i’ve never participated in this before.

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