[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4eesh0fVFc]

I’m currently very much taken by the quality of thought in Giambattista Vico‘s extensive quotes on marriage in Adultery in the Novel, a book I recently acquired at Het Ivoren Aapje, the Brussels equivalent of Antwerp’s Antiquariaat Demian. The link with the above Youtube clip is oblique but can be constructed as follows: “Law of the Land = Universal law or verum factum“. This juxtapoem brings together Afro-American psychedelic soul group The Temptations and Italian Counter-Enlightenment, self-publisher philosopher Giambattista Vico.