You know, I kind of have a weakness for these candles. I totally get the appeal. My God do we need reassurance - Guardian Angels, man. I mean, it’s either this or Theognis and a mound of earth; or maybe some happy combination of them all.
Between you and me, I don’t really like La SantÃsima Muerte. Too macabre by half. I suspect she’s a bit of the old Aztec religion creeping back. Guardian Angels are way better.
I’ve found it’s pretty easy to make candles from the discarded wax of old ones. Paper cup molds are perfectly acceptable.
“Paganism has not yet invented laws--only virtues.” “Dionysus the drunk boy on a panther--rank adolescent sweat--Pan goatman slogs through the solid earth up to his waist as if it were the sea, his skin crusted with moss & lichen--Eros multiplies himself into a dozen pastoral naked Iowa farm boys with muddy feet & pond-scum on their thighs.” –Hakim Bey, “Paganism”, The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchy
Man! That buddy of yours Sid sure as hell has a way with words, images and ideas! And a friend of mine once said his novel "Crowstone" was the greatest book he ever read! Long live P.L.W.
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You know, I kind of have a weakness for these candles. I totally get the appeal. My God do we need reassurance - Guardian Angels, man. I mean, it’s either this or Theognis and a mound of earth; or maybe some happy combination of them all.
Z
Of course we could make it La SantÃsima Muerte. Very popular down Mexico way, I hear.
Z
Given my life, and what I know. I shouldn't be horrified or even surprised.
...but I am.
That, and I fear I'm running out of candles.
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Between you and me, I don’t really like La SantÃsima Muerte. Too macabre by half. I suspect she’s a bit of the old Aztec religion creeping back. Guardian Angels are way better.
I’ve found it’s pretty easy to make candles from the discarded wax of old ones. Paper cup molds are perfectly acceptable.
Z
“Paganism has not yet invented laws--only virtues.”
“Dionysus the drunk boy on a panther--rank adolescent sweat--Pan goatman slogs through the solid earth up to his waist as if it were the sea, his skin crusted with moss & lichen--Eros multiplies himself into a dozen pastoral naked Iowa farm boys with muddy feet & pond-scum on their thighs.”
–Hakim Bey, “Paganism”, The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchy
Man! That buddy of yours Sid sure as hell has a way with words, images and ideas! And a friend of mine once said his novel "Crowstone" was the greatest book he ever read!
Long live P.L.W.
My copy fell apart a long time ago - loved to death. I keep the fragments, hoping to restore the whole.
Z
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