“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
“On the ice flow they grip,
cut, twist, break open seeds
throwing out the white salt,
revive volcanic dreams:
unable to satisfy
their diminuated lust
the allegoric flesh
learns the thrill of return.”
The Creation Edda (1970)
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Context: The value of dreams, like … divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message.
