Sexual intercourse plays a major role in Bonobo society, being used as a greeting, a means of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconciliation, and as favors traded by the females in exchange for food. With the exception of a pair of Congoese gorillas caught in the act, Bonobos were thought to be the only non-human apes to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual activities: face-to-face genital sex (most frequently female-female, then male-female and male-male), tongue kissing, and oral sex. In scientific literature, the female-female sex is often referred to as GG rubbing or genital-genital rubbing.

“Poetry is an activity for the condemned. Poets walk through the street with the face and the gestures of the passers-by and only in this way do they survive; because if they had dressed themselves with the robe of asbestos and phosphorous which they should be wearing, people would flee from their footsteps and terror would reign all around like a luminescent crown of justice. Poets understand this situation and accept the painful burden of this humiliating camouflage. But a place remains where this condition of ‘victim’ marked by the seven fingers of clarity, beauty, ire, timelessness, dreams, death and love cannot be hidden. The words of the poet, as well as his gaze and his interaction with the other poets, point to this place.”

“I think you (and John, too, for that matter) must watch what is always the great danger with any ’surrealistic’ style, namely of confusing authentic nonlogical relations which arouse wonder with accidental ones which arouse mere surprise and in the end fatigue.“

The monolith also represents the ‘cube of space’ or the ‘container of creation’ in alchemy. The cube of space is this container that holds reality. Kubrick originally intended for the object in the film to be a tetrahedron pyramid. This would have been appropriate to what he was attempting to convey because the tetrahedron is the building block of the third dimension. It is also the foundation of the Platonic solids. But Kubrick decided to junk the tetrahedron idea in favor of the monolith. It is said that Kubrick himself created the first drawing of what the monolith would look like, including it’s dimensions. The black, single stone becomes the container of creation and the alchemical cube at the same time. This black stone of creation is also one of the main features in the Islamic religion, where a black meteorite sits near the kaaba, or cube of space, in the Arabian city of Mecca. Kubrick has combined these many deeply held spiritual traditions and symbols and refashioned them into the monolith, or stone, that is constructed in the same dimensions as the movie screen on which it will be projected.

“and your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. it must become knowing, it must become criticism. ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. but don’t give in, insists on arguments, and act in this way, attentive ans persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers–perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.
and about feelings: all feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you…everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. every intensification is good, if it is in your entire, if it isn’t intoxification or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom. do you understand what i mean?
there is probably no point in my going into your questions now; for what could i say about your tendency to doubt or about your inability to bring your outer and inner lives into harmony or about all the other things that oppress you–is just what i have already said, that you may find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith; that you may gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in you solitude among people. and as for the rest, let life happen to you. believe me: life is in the right, always.”

“I want to have a baby”