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Created on 2005-02-16 17:06:05 (#6153425), last updated 2009-12-26
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BioIf I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Friends only.
Spirituality, an aspect of all beauty, is inseparable from Greta Garbo. Filmmakers sensed this from the beginning, and contexts were sought to emphasize that dimension. In the first shot of her first appearance in an American film, The Torrent (1926), Garbo was seen praying in a garden. In her second film, The Temptress (1926), she had a close encounter with Jesus.
Actually, she only thought he was Jesus. It's the end of the film and Garbo, the temptress, the woman whose beauty has destroyed countless men, is now nearly destroyed herself. Her clothes are threadbare, her mind has turned to mush from syphilis, and she sits in a Paris café. She sees a man with a beard and hallucinates that he is Jesus. She approaches his table and gives him her one cherished possession, a ring that a long-lost lover gave her years before. "In all my useless life - one thing," she tells him. "A ruby - you will understand - you died for love."
There, at the start of Garbo's career, we find the terms laid out for us. Passion is passion. Ecstasy is ecstasy, and love is religion. Sex and romance are matters of the highest consequence, beyond life and death and into realms of spirit, alongside things like damnation, redemption, salvation.
- Mick LaSalle, Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Friends only.
Spirituality, an aspect of all beauty, is inseparable from Greta Garbo. Filmmakers sensed this from the beginning, and contexts were sought to emphasize that dimension. In the first shot of her first appearance in an American film, The Torrent (1926), Garbo was seen praying in a garden. In her second film, The Temptress (1926), she had a close encounter with Jesus.
Actually, she only thought he was Jesus. It's the end of the film and Garbo, the temptress, the woman whose beauty has destroyed countless men, is now nearly destroyed herself. Her clothes are threadbare, her mind has turned to mush from syphilis, and she sits in a Paris café. She sees a man with a beard and hallucinates that he is Jesus. She approaches his table and gives him her one cherished possession, a ring that a long-lost lover gave her years before. "In all my useless life - one thing," she tells him. "A ruby - you will understand - you died for love."
There, at the start of Garbo's career, we find the terms laid out for us. Passion is passion. Ecstasy is ecstasy, and love is religion. Sex and romance are matters of the highest consequence, beyond life and death and into realms of spirit, alongside things like damnation, redemption, salvation.
- Mick LaSalle, Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
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