Unspeakable Desires, Part 2: Pre-Sand Egypt, reconsidered

Cloisters at L'Abbaye Fontevraud

Notes from Aug. 17/18, part 2

So we come to the question of why Jack Kerouac and Hadewijch both use this peculiar term, unspeakable desire, which seems on the surface to indicate something profane, but is quite definitely meant to be understood as sacred by both of them, despite the vast separation between the two in both …