We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what we've been through and… - Milan Kundera

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

"Kitsch" is a German word born in the middle of the sentimental nineteenth century, and from German is entered all Western languages. Repeated use, however, has obliterated its original metaphysical meaning: kitsch is the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and figurative sense of the word; kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.