Michel Foucault

from Rachel Blau DuPlessis's Drafts:

Quire: one-twentieth of a ream.

Poem: bare ruined quire.

Pelargonium

geranium

psychomachy — a conflict between the soul and the body; between good and evil

coryphaeus — chorus leader who delivers lines of verse on behalf of the chorus as a whole

Papaver

poppy

from Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization:

the melancholy of the English was easily explained by the influence of a maritime climate, cold, humidity, the instability of the weather; all those fine droplets of water that penetrated the channels and fibers of the human body and made it lose its firmness, predisposed it to madness. . . .

the twelve dualities that dispute the sovereignty of the human soul: Faith and Idolatry, Hope and Despair, Charity and Avarice, Chastity and Lust, Prudence and Folly, Patience and Anger, Gentleness and Harshness, Concord and Discord, Obedience and Rebellion, Perseverance and Inconstancy, Fortitude and Cowardice, Humility and Pride . . .

[Candid Canada]

[from Erasmus’s Praise of Folly] Folly’s companions: "Recognize them here, in the group of my companions.... She whose brows are drawn is Philautia (Self-Love). She whom you see laugh with her eyes and applaud with her hands is Colacia (Flattery). She who seems half asleep is Lethe (Forgetfulness). She who leans upon her elbows and folds her hands is Misoponia (Sloth). She who is crowned with roses and anointed with perfume is Hedonia (Sensuality). She whose eyes wander without seeing is Anoia (Stupidity). She whose abundant flesh has the hue of flowers is Tryphe (Indolence). And here among these young women are two gods: the god of Good Cheer and the god of Deep Sleep."