Good dinners pass away, so do tyrants and toothache
Terry Eagleton: Death, Desire and so forth, 16 April 1998
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture
by Jonathan Dollimore.
Allen Lane, 380 pp., £25, April 1998,0 7139 9125 9 Show More
by Jonathan Dollimore.
Allen Lane, 380 pp., £25, April 1998,
“... rather than present self-loathing. He might have added that for the supposedly anti-fleshly St Paul, it is the sexual coupling of bodies which symbolises the relationship between Christ and his people, and that in Christian tradition celibacy is meant to be a sacrifice. Since it is no sacrifice to surrender what you regard as worthless, Christian ascetism ... ”