A quality of Beauty, of Original Face is and that beauty opens a wound in my heart. I want my close readings of cultural artifacts to start with the phrase "I am wounded by the beauty of this.... Can a teacher help –as an artist is to help me to understand more how a "piercing beauty" can make more of the quantity we call soul? If we are born with a little bit of soul, and our movements back and forth between paradox and dilemma are the growing pains of soul as we quite literally grow our original face as we are confounded by truth in discernment's, forced to action by reason and then penetrated by beauty.
Compunctio cordis is traditionally a heartfelt sorrow. What if it was recast as the work of incarnated imagination at work. The repentance is quite rightly there of course, Beauty make that happen as a first move, but what if the wounded heart is the signpost of beauty and the death of the quickly and painlessly cute?
http://books.google.com/books?id=1Mn_6NHqRs8C
The craft of thought : meditation, rhetoric, and the making of images, 400-1200
by Mary J Carruthers
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