The agreeable eye

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More specifically concerning: sympathy

Montaigne 1.21

5 June 2015, around 9.16.

Steel engraving by J.B. Bourgois, 1808, after ‘The Hermaphrodite’ in the Louvre. We sweat, we tremble, we turn pale and blush through the shock of our imagination and lying back in our feather-bed we feel our body agitated by its power… –Montaigne (Essays ‘Of the Power of Imagination’) The power of imagination – excesses of […]

ego hoc feci mm–MMXXIV · cc 2000–2024 M.F.C.

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