Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 53
orthodoxy.) For Cunniza, Sordello wrote what Ezra Pound among others
has praised as the noblest hyperbole in the history of love poetry:
If I see you not, lady with whom I am entranced,
hlo sight J see is worth the beauty of my thought.
This kind of thing evidently became commonplace: The troubadour
Cabestan was murdered by a jealous husband who then (possibly
considering himself a figure in Greek tragedy) cut out poor Cabestan's heart
and served it at dinner to his faithless wife, telling her it was a deer's. When
she had enjoyed it, the scoundrel told her what it had actually been, and she
threw herself from a balcony and died on the rocks below. This nearincredible
but true story is dramatized in Pound's Canto 4 and Richard
Aldington's "The Eaten Heart"; I cannot imagine why Puccini did not make
an opera of it.
Eventually, the Knights Templar were suppressed by the Inquisition (123
of them were burned at the stake after being tortured into confessing a long
string of abominations which most historians regard as fictitious) and the
Albigensian Crusade was launched—ostensibly against the sexually permissive
Cathari sect, but once rolling, decimating the population of southern France
Jn what Kenneth Rexroth has bitterly called "the worst actrocity in history,
.before the invention of Progress." The Templars did not revive until the
18th Century and the Cathari only came back in the 1920s. The values of
papist patriarchy reconquered all Europe until the Protestant schism and
retains Southern Europe to this day.
, Romantic poetry with its matrist and oral values survived and actually
prevailed. Geoffrey Chaucer imported the ideology to England with his
Knight's Tale and some of his shorter rondels; by Elizabethan times this had
|rirtually become the whole of poetry. Thus, Shakespeare could write about
juiything that struck his imagination when he was writing for the stage, but