How to call It?

What is there that is sacred?

But now it seems necessary here to commit the heinous, indecent sacrilege!

What is it really, the “divine”?

Can He or She defecate, get erect, bleed, get wet, sweat and fart and burp, cry and sneeze, ejaculate, scream, swell and drool, yell and climax?

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Wherefrom comes the shame?

Wherefrom comes the fault?

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The infant as it pees laughs uproariously.

In the eyes of the infant is the gaze of joyous innocence, pure trust, happy abandon and, at times, the straight question that tolerates no mask… whose are these eyes, their fullness and their innate dignity? During this brief period of our physical corporeal existence, each of us goes through this formidable paradox – to be absolutely at the mercy of others, to entirely depend on others and yet to

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