By Nicola Masciandaro
The writings during this quantity are certain by means of wish to refuse fear, to reject and throw it away the single approach attainable, through signifies that are themselves unfastened from fear. If this can be impossible—all the extra cause to take action. I. the beauty (of the legislation) II. Nunc Dimittis: Getting Anagogic III. part lifeless: Parsing Cecilia IV. Wormsign V. Gourmandized within the Abattoir of Openness VI. Grave Levitation: Being Scholarly VII. hard work, Language, Laughter: Aesop and the Apophatic Human VIII. this can be Paradise: The Heresy of the current IX. changing into Spice: remark as Geophilosophy X. Amor Fati: A Prosthetic Gloss XI. Following the Sigh
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7 Literal anagogy, to echo Lacan,8 Rorem, Biblical and Liturgical Symbols within the Pseudo-Dionysian Synthesis, 64). 4 “Just as a stone pulled by its own weight is naturally drawn down to its own center, so the apex of the affectus by its own weight is carried up to God directly and unmediatedly, without any oblique tangientiality” (Roads to Zion, Difficult Question par. 34, in Carthusian Spriituality: The Writings of Hugh of Balma and Guigo de Ponte, trans. Dennis D. Martin [New York: Paulist Press, 1997], 165) 5 Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis, trans.
E. no time], and than shall alle be brought into joy” (Julian of Norwich, Writings, 193). 74 38 SWEETNESS (OF THE LAW) and-last sweetness that is intelligible as the perfective detonation of law itself, a manifest explosion of law’s subject-determining negation (thou shalt not) into an impossibly positive and hyperobjective shall be that speaks beyond hope, rendering consolation ridiculous and even its own assurance senseless. 79 The figural reading of the Marah tree as Tree of Life and/or Cross manifests a significant but otherwise inobvious formal aspect of the episode, namely, that the sweetening of the waters by means of the tree signifies a paradisical inversion of the normal flow of life into a higher and other kind of life.
81 82 40 SWEETNESS (OF THE LAW) nail) is connected with the principle of binding. ”83 In other words, law encodes and transposes sweetness in a negatively volitional manner, enclosing the freedom of what one wants to do within the necessity of what one must. This relation may be summarized with a simple table: ATTRACTION persuasion, coercion FORCE SWEETNESS ↕ LAW FREEDOM delight, cloying BINDING Following this logic, law is simply the actualization of the inversion of sweetness. Law is sweetness upside down.