#reading on

The bourgeoisie nostalgically yearns for the spirituality of its peasant ancestors in order to give meaning to the vacuity of its bourgeois existence.

Foru dayss until #2′s official release and I’m just on page oME OF THE PREVIEW but I’m already EXCITE D

“What does Persephone’s passion open? If Persephone’s work, as has long been understood, is the katabasis or descent of the Soul from the realm of Zeus, the demiurge of Ideas, into that of Pluton, the demiurge of Images, bringing life and truth, what does it mean that this occurs through a will breached in its essence? For could not the same be accomplished through a normative marriage, in which Demeter would be fully involved? Why should it occur through the seeming reduction of Persephone to an object exchanged between the Kronian brothers?”