The Museum of Love and Drunkenness
(Corner of Dream and Rain Streets)
WINE - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (Proverbs, 23:31-35)
ECSTASY - On the night of 23 October 1816, the cur‚ of Lignan and others, being in the room of Marie-Ange, who was in ecstasy, heard the kisses imprinted on her lips by Our Lord and Our Beloved Mother and recorded that each kiss produced a small quantity of fluid which Marie-Ange swallowed. When she had swallowed a fair quantity, the kisses continuing, she allowed some fluid to escape from one corner of her mouth. The cur‚ then approaching, he gathered it up with his finger and swallowed it. When he had swallowed a fair quantity, the kisses continuing, he gave a lick thereof to each person who was in the room. The kisses continuing, and the fluids still escaping from the lips of Marie-Ange, the cur‚ had the persons who were in the kitchen come upstairs; all tasted it and found it delicious. The cur‚ soaked a white handkerchief of Rouen linen in that fluid, which I possess, along with relics of Marie-Ange... The kisses beginning anew...
More ardent that ordinary kisses, the loud kisses the young girl received were often each accompanied by a pretty bon-bon. It might be said that never had a saint been seen or known to have received from Our Lord and his divine mother so many kisses as Marie-Ange! As the letters she received said, Marie-Ange was the veritable spouse of the Song of Songs; is it any wonder, then, that she received kisses? We should rather see in those kisses the irrefragable proof of what the letters affirm.
One day in July 1817, at Cazouls, in the room of the cur‚ Monsieur Julien, we were eight persons; Marie-Ange was in ecstasy, and we heard the kisses on her lips. We approached, and we saw that each kiss produced in her mouth a bon-bon the size of a pea. She received nearly a hundred. When her tongue was covered in these, Marie Ange extended it; and what was our astonishment at seeing those bon-bons, of all colours, set out in line in an admirable manner. (George Bataille, Encyclop‘dia Acephalica, p. 156)
LITTLE BO-PEEP - Little Bo-peep enters, looks all around, then weeps. As she holds her hands at her eyes she manages to drop the good-sized paper tears she had concealed in her hand. During the shower of tears two sheep come in on all fours, wagging their tails. (How a sheep,s head can be made of newspapers is shown in the illustration facing this page in which Little Bo-peep is waiting at the side with one sheep, ready to go on when the time comes.) Bo-peep claps her hands in delight and pats the head of the first sheep that reaches her. The nursery tune Little Bo-peep may be played as an accompaniment.
This picture is especially good for the end of shadow program, because it is sure to leave the audience laughing. If it is encored, as it usually is, Bo-peep may stoop, gather up the paper tears from the floor, and conspicuously weep them again.
PROJECT METHOD IN TEACHING - Projects Must Be Real, Not Imaginary Some persons seem to be taking a very superficial view of projects. One teacher recently had her pupils tear up paper into fine bits and then &plant8 them in rows on the floor, as corn. Then they went through the imaginary movements of hoeing corn and of cutting and husking it. When asked why she required her pupils to spend their time in this way, the teacher replied, "They are developing their imagination." There is a good deal of time wasted in school in "developing imagination".
Let it be granted that imagination can be developed by such work as has been described. Of what service will it be to any pupil? It will harm him more than it will help him, if he goes far into it, because he will come to substitute imaginary corn for real corn, imaginary hoeing for real hoeing, imaginary husking for real husking. There are individuals who cannot distinguish between real and fantastic activities, and they are hindered rather than helped in dealing with the world. Imagination that is not grounded in real activities is worse than useless. (World Book Encyclopedia, vol. IX, 1928)
QUESTIONS FOR LOVERS - Why may carpenters reasonably believe there is no such thing as stone? What kind of paper tells you who you are? What sort of tie would a smart pig wear? Tell us the best way to make the hours go fast. When are eyes not eyes? What age do most girls wish to attain? Why are country girl,s cheeks like a good cotton dress? What is the difference between a professional musician and one that hears him? Why does a waxed floor remind you of music? When does a farmer perform miracles? When is an artist dangerous? Why is there no such thing as a whole day? When do broken bones begin to make themselves useful? When is a baby like a cup? Why should you never write on an empty stomach? Why do we all go to bed? Why are guns like trees? What makes an empty matchbox superior to any other? Why do birds clean out a fruit tree so quickly? How can you always have friends?
Related Subjects. In connection with this discussion, the reader is referred to the following articles in these volumes: Anti-Saloon League Ectoplasm Good Templars Hydrophobia Instinct Jones Law Labrador Tea Loco Weed Local Option Mesmerism Poison Gas Volstead Act
Contributed by: :: Jinny Pearce :: Douglas Heise
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