Dear Mr.Jakubowski,Good afternoon.Thank you very much for your prompt and courteous response to my phone call this morning.Its a heady experience being able to talk to you and get your permission to send a publishing project to you for your guidance and possible participation.
This project is inspired by,among other sources,your conception of erotica as demonstrated in The Mammoth Book of Erotica and encapsulated in your assertion that "Erotic writing at its best[transcends]pornography".It has plenty of sex,but it also embodies people's "feelings,imagination and a radiant sense of discovery of the joys that flesh can bring".
It is also inspired by the words of the pornographic actor,Lexington Steele, in an interview at http://www.getbig.com/iview/steele040315.htm where he describes how his work as a dedicated pornographic actor led him to a creative flexibility in his spiritual life.

The project explores the issues thrown up by your evocation of the delights of the senses in relation to sexuality and by Steele's description of himself as a professional fornicator who interprets his life as a prostitute in terms of divine guidance.

The project explores these questions by juxtaposing evocations of the senses and the flesh as obstacles to an enlightened or spiritual life with those that celebrate the senses and sexuality,particularly in relation to philosophical and spiritual issues.
The texts would be drawn from almost,if not every, era and location known to history.They would move from ancient Africa to Asia to the modern West.These juxtapositions would be made made further provocative by being placed alongside images of graphic sexuality,often pornographic,which not only celebrate the body but seek to inflame the senses through the artful depiction of sexuality.
\n \nI\'m using a blog as a workshop or pilot for this project.I see the project as consisting of a blog and a book complementing each other.The blog would provide regular,perhaps daily updates in a medium that would provide a broader range of accessibility to the materials than a book \ncould.It would provide links to the sources of the texts and images used.It would also allow for reader participation in a manner that books cannot,through comments links where readers can leave their comments.The blog would also enable a level of global accessibility of the book\'s subject matter that could be channeled into greater demand for the \nbook.An aspect of the project,which I am considering placing in the book too,would be my plan of enabling links to commentaries provided by me,to the texts and images,reflecting on their significance in relation to the theme of the project.\n\n \nThe book,on the other hand,would provide an ergonomic comfort that a computer cannot provide.The lure of the computer or of even a handheld computing device still cannot replace the sheer pleasure of holding a book.\n\n \nThe blog is at www.exploringdecadence.blogspot.com. A google search finds it easily.\n \nI see this project as providing a bridge between what could be described as the low brow appeal of porn and the highbrow satisfaction provided by classic writings which denigrate or celebrate the sensual and the \nerotic.It would therefore attract readers by appealing to different sides of human nature.\n \nI can have the first full demonstration of the project ready in one month or less.\n \nThank you.",1]
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I'm using a blog as a workshop or pilot for this project.I see the project as consisting of a blog and a book complementing each other.The blog would provide regular,perhaps daily updates in a medium that would provide a broader range of accessibility to the materials than a book could.It would provide links to the sources of the texts and images used.It would also allow for reader participation in a manner that books cannot,through comments links where readers can leave their comments.The blog would also enable a level of global accessibility of the book's subject matter that could be channeled into greater demand for the book.An aspect of the project,which I am considering placing in the book too,would be my plan of enabling links to commentaries provided by me,to the texts and images,reflecting on their significance in relation to the theme of the project.

The book,on the other hand,would provide an ergonomic comfort that a computer cannot provide.The lure of the computer or of even a handheld computing device still cannot replace the sheer pleasure of holding a book.

The blog is at www.exploringdecadence.blogspot.com. A Google search finds it easily.

I see this project as providing a bridge between what could be described as the low brow appeal of porn and the highbrow satisfaction provided by classic writings which denigrate or celebrate the sensual and the erotic.It would therefore attract readers by appealing to different sides of human nature.

I can have the first full demonstration of the project ready in one month or less.

Thank you.
Toyin Adepoju

toyin adepoju: i have developed two new sites i would like your views about
Oshodi Oshodi: ok, where they dey?
toyin adepoju: start with
toyin adepoju: vaginarumbles
toyin adepoju: you might not be able to doi so at work sha
toyin adepoju: but when ready go to
toyin adepoju: ifastudentandteacher.blogspot.com
toyin adepoju: click on VIEW MY COMPLETE PROFILE
toyin adepoju: dat will take you to all my blogs
toyin adepoju: the two new ones are
toyin adepoju: vaginarumbles
toyin adepoju: and
toyin adepoju: exploringdecadence
toyin adepoju: vaginarumbles
toyin adepoju: correlaltes ifa,orisha traditions and other philosophical and spiritual traditions with graphic vidsual erotica-porn
toyin adepoju: exploringdecadence correlaltes philosophical and spiritual traditions with graphic vidsual erotica-porn under the inpiration of the words of the porn star lex steele on his relationshipm weith God
toyin adepoju: contrastive ideas about the body and nature are juxtaposed with images celebrasting what could be unbderstood as a celebrsation of decadence through porn
toyin adepoju: thereby foregrounding the delight of the graphically erotic and the wariness and even condemnation of the erotic by a broad spectrum of phiolosophical,spiritual and literary expression covering a broad sweep of space and time,including the 5th century st augustine,the buddha nd the bible

Oshodi Oshodi: that is strong stuff, very serious
Oshodi Oshodi: Vagina rumble
toyin adepoju: thanks.i want to explorte the corelation of porn and humanities deest concerns
toyin adepoju: i see myself as following the footsteps of ifa and the bible where the erotic and the spiritual exist in hasrmony
toyin adepoju: i want to explorte the corelation of porn and humanities deepesst concerns

Dear Mr.Jakubowski,
Good afternoon.
Thank you very much for your prompt and courteous response to my phone call this morning. It's a heady experience being able to talk to you and get your permission to send a publishing project to you for your guidance and possible participation.


This project is inspired by, among other sources, your conception of erotica as demonstrated in The Mammoth Book of Erotica and encapsulated in your assertion that "Erotic writing at its best [transcends] pornography". It has plenty of sex, but it also embodies people's "feelings, imagination and a radiant sense of discovery of the joys that flesh can bring".


It is also inspired by the words of the pornographic actor, Lexington Steele, in an interview at http://www.getbig.com/iview/steele040315.htm where he describes how his work as a dedicated pornographic actor leads him to a creative flexibility in his spiritual life.



The project explores the issues thrown up by your evocation of the delights of the senses in relation to sexuality and by Steele's description of himself as a professional fornicator who interprets his life as a prostitute in terms of divine guidance.



The project explores these questions by juxtaposing evocations of the senses and the flesh as obstacles to an enlightened or spiritual life with those that celebrate the senses and sexuality, particularly in relation to philosophical and spiritual issues.



The texts would be drawn from almost, if not every, era and location known to history. They would move from ancient Africa to Asia to the modern West.



These juxtapositions would be made further provocative by being placed alongside images of graphic sexuality, often pornographic, which not only celebrate the body but seek to inflame the senses through the artful depiction of sexuality.



I'm using a blog as a workshop or pilot for this project. I see the project as consisting of a blog and a book complementing each other. The blog would provide regular, perhaps daily updates in a medium that would enable a broader range of accessibility to the materials than a book could. It would provide links to the sources of the texts and images used. It would also allow for reader participation in a manner that books cannot, through comments links where readers can leave their comments. The blog would also enable a level of global accessibility of the book's subject matter that could be channelled into greater demand for the book. An aspect of the project, which I am considering placing in the book too, would be my plan of enabling links to commentaries provided by me, to the texts and images, reflecting on their significance in relation to the theme of the project.



The book, on the other hand, would provide an ergonomic comfort that a computer cannot provide. The lure of the computer or of even a handheld computing device still cannot replace the sheer pleasure of holding a book.



The blog is at www.exploringdecadence.blogspot.com . A Google search finds it easily.



I see this project as providing a bridge between what could be described as the low brow appeal of porn and the highbrow satisfaction provided by classic writings which denigrate or celebrate the sensual and the erotic. It would therefore attract readers by appealing to different sides of human nature.



I can have the first full demonstration of the project ready in one month or less.



Thank you.

Toyin Adepoju.

Ultimately, an effort at discursive and existential intertextuality

Discursive interttextuality- intertextuality within and between texts
Existential interttextuality-cross reference between aspects of existence and between texts and what they refer to in the extra textual world
The Ifa system discursive intertextuality occurring in terms of cross references between various texts
Existential intertextuality occurring between the texts and their referents in the larger world and between aspects of the larger world-a pattern suggested by insights arrived at through the texts

Joyces Ulysses allusiveness, mythic and historical resonance within the framework of one day in the life of the central character
Dante’s divine comedy interpreting his journey in terms of social and cosmic developments
Perhaps Homer Iliad war the cosmic universe of the gods-the larger world that continues before, during and after the catastrophes of war
Through constant allusion to the world that exists outside the field of battle and to the nonhuman actors participating in war