Odeon of Herodes Atticus, ancient stone theatre in Athens

So many monstrosities have come out of a desire to, alone, re-animate the dead, bringing what has been put to rest back into the light, scalding the gods’ aged skin in violent solar exposure, when time had just begun to bathe them in an ever-expanding eternal shadow. Why then are we now encouraged to exhume corpses and embalm them all over again? .....

Lascaux painting, February 2006 — Prof saxx, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

The animal in Rilke dwells within space. Here I will designate the Open as a lived field, a world neither cut off from the being that moves through it, nor reduced to an object by a gaze that turns back upon itself. Humans, by contrast, are a reflection of the world; a world itself reversed by a monotheistic god who turns humanity back toward himself. .....