In self-love there is no energy of duality and therefore no spiritual progression.

—Sexual Personae on Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Not entirely out of context! It made me think of my post on The Faerie Queene and the multiplicity of vocation, although I expect La Paglia would turn up her nose at such a chaste little post. I do wish she’d accept that there are ways of playing out existential dramas other than through sex (or at least, in addition to sex!), you know, and sometimes people even make art about those ways….