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"This knight will lead us to understand the language of love"

"This knight will lead us to understand the language of love"

Read along: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Jun 27, 2021
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Hi Friends,

I hope you had a great week. I’d like to open by bringing our attention to a concept that does not get much play these days outside of puritanical religious circles: the medieval virtue of “chastity” or the belief that one is “pure” if one abstains from sexual relations. The 19th-century German anarchist we’ve been recently reading, Max Stirn…

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