This is wonderful! "A Simple Heart" is perfect but St. Julien the Hospitaler is also astonishing fyi-- teaching with Moshfegh's Ina in the spring, it's precisely a response to its medieval decadence.
It's mainly just astonishing, to me, that such a lightly clothed fantasy of homoerotic violence and the erotics of sainthood could be published-- the decadence
Really loved this piece.
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about to actually subscribe to WP just to read this. love him too 🩵
oh thank you, this is so kind! he rules!
This is wonderful! "A Simple Heart" is perfect but St. Julien the Hospitaler is also astonishing fyi-- teaching with Moshfegh's Ina in the spring, it's precisely a response to its medieval decadence.
I must confess I do not love St. Julien but enough intelligent people have texted me outraged that I don't love it that I must re-consider!
It's mainly just astonishing, to me, that such a lightly clothed fantasy of homoerotic violence and the erotics of sainthood could be published-- the decadence