Wed
Jul
22
The Lion's Tooth
"By making everything visible, one arrests desire"
- Jacques Lacan
Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers
I found that ivory image there
Dancing with her chosen youth,
But when he wound her coal-black hair
As though to strangle her, no scream
Or bodily movement did I dare,
Eyes under eyelids did so gleam;
Love is like the lion's tooth.
When She, and though some said she played
I said that she had danced heart's truth,
Drew a knife to strike him dead,
I could but leave him to his fate;
For no matter what is said
They had all that had their hate;
Love is like the lion's tooth.
Did he die or did she die?
Seemed to die or died they both?
God be with the times when I
Cared not a thraneen for what chanced
So that I had the limbs to try
Such a dance as there was danced -
Love is like the lion's tooth.
William Butler Yeats
- Jacques Lacan
Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers
I found that ivory image there
Dancing with her chosen youth,
But when he wound her coal-black hair
As though to strangle her, no scream
Or bodily movement did I dare,
Eyes under eyelids did so gleam;
Love is like the lion's tooth.
When She, and though some said she played
I said that she had danced heart's truth,
Drew a knife to strike him dead,
I could but leave him to his fate;
For no matter what is said
They had all that had their hate;
Love is like the lion's tooth.
Did he die or did she die?
Seemed to die or died they both?
God be with the times when I
Cared not a thraneen for what chanced
So that I had the limbs to try
Such a dance as there was danced -
Love is like the lion's tooth.
William Butler Yeats
Morocco
National Palace Museum, Taiwan
Konarek, India
Kathmandu, Nepal
A tiny limestone figure of a lion from ancient Mesopotamia has sold at auction for $57m, almost double the previous record price for a sculpture.
Sculpture by Niki de Sainte Phalle.
Mosaic based on the winged-lion of Venice by Collette Crutcher. mosaicartsource.wordpress.com/…/page/5/
This statue is at the castle of Howard Solomon, a quirky recycler in Ona, Florida.
This is the largest standing lion statue in the world, located at Queen’s University in Charlotte, N.C.
This is one of a pair of Vatican lions. The originals are from a pair sculpted by
Antonio Canova (1757-1822) for the tomb of Pope Clement XIII in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Rome. The lion is symbol of the Roman and Macedonian empires.
Trafalger Square, London.
Guiyang, China.
Place de St. Sulpice, Paris
Burned at Burning Man, San Francisco.
