The wisdom of the ancients:
Surely it is an excellent plan, when you are seated before delicacies and choice foods, to impress upon your imagination that this is the dead body of a fish, that the dead body of a bird or pig; (...) and in matters of sex intercourse, that it is the attrition of an entrail and the convulsive expulsion of mere mucus. Surely these are excellent imaginations, going to the heart of actual facts and penetrating them so as to see the kinds of things they really are.
Good one, Marcus Aurelius!
Surely it is an excellent plan, when you are seated before delicacies and choice foods, to impress upon your imagination that this is the dead body of a fish, that the dead body of a bird or pig; (...) and in matters of sex intercourse, that it is the attrition of an entrail and the convulsive expulsion of mere mucus. Surely these are excellent imaginations, going to the heart of actual facts and penetrating them so as to see the kinds of things they really are.
Good one, Marcus Aurelius!
al:
Sometimes I think of things that way, but then I always end up telling myself "aw, fuck it, " and digging in.
maximillian:
"Marcus, stop talking about mucus; you're ruining the mood again."