Dr. Paul Curtain had a theory about the sex lives of his students. Against the pressures of the school officials, he conducted a sex survey that probed the inner depths of the students’ repressed desires. His mania for fact sent him to the brink of depravity…and a house that was a modern Babylon!
[1961]
Coade’s Artificial Stone Manufactory and John Sealy (1749–1813)
Burton Constable Hall
Panel from a tavern interior
unknown artist
Hertford Museum
1717-18
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Oil on canvas, 142 x 116 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
[1963]
[1912]
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937)
National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
it’s where
all heaven
is going
Sweet In Her Prime
Transcendent Immanent
The Goddess In Matter
Sitting Straight
As The Sacred Oak
Whose thighs are holy
Specifically in this instance
Outside Cappy’s Cafe
Her legs uncrossing
Under the glass
Tabletop
Her true form hidden and mysterious
In any case liminal in relation
To the ordered world
In this hour
The Gravity of a Cosmic Body
Her true sanctity
Revealed by my desire
Light skin light flesh
I keep thinking god is
After me when I
Put my
And at such moments was her beauty — in my heated fancy thus it appeared perhaps — the beauty of beings either above or apart from the earth
— POE
A Leak In The Safe 