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Bawdy Can Be Sane/ DH Lawrence Poem (Diptych 2)

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Técnica mixta, acrílico sobre cartulina
Mixed media, acrylic on carton

Bawdy can be sane
(D.H. Lawrence - 1885 ~ 1930)

Bawdy can be sane and wholesome,
in fact a little bawdy is necessary in every life
to keep it sane and wholesome.

And a little whoring can be sane and wholesome.
In fact a little whoring is necessary in every life
to keep it sane and wholesome.

Even sodomy can be sane and wholesome
granted there is an exchange of genuine feeling.

But get any of them on the brain, and they become pernicious:
bawdy on the brain becomes obscenity, vicious.
Whoring on the brain becomes really syphilitic
and sodomy on the brain becomes a mission,
all the lot of them, vice, missions, etc., insanely unhealthy.

In the same way, chastity in its hour is sweet and wholesome.
But chastity on the brain is a vice, a perversion.
And rigid suppression of all bawdy, whoring or other such commerce
is a straight way to raving insanity.
The fifth generation of puritans, when it isn't obscenely profligate,
is idiot. so you've got to choose.

Artist information

Agostinho Manuel Bento de Oliveira was born in Mozambique in 1967. In 1976 he moved to Portugal where he studied at the school of Arts and Crafts ?Soares dos Reis" of Oporto. Since then he?s deeply linked to the world of art, theatre and design.

EXHIBITIONS

2011

"Caligrams-Linear Poetry (Apollinaire vs. Foucault)". Mama Ines. Madrid, Spain.

"Lyrics of Fado". Municipal Gallery of Ourém, Portugal.

"Caligrams-Linear Poetry (Apollinaire vs. Foucault)". La Buga del Lobo, Madrid,...

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