jean-jacques lequeu “Le Dieu Priape” with text by da vinci (via jahsonic)

Leonardo da Vinci wrote the little text “Della Verga” in his notebooks:

“[The phallus] confers with the human intelligence and sometimes has intelligence of itself, and although the will of the man desires to stimulate it it remains obstinate and takes his own course, and moving sometimes of itself without license or thought by the man, whether he be sleeping or waking, it does what it desires; and often the man is asleep and it is awake, and many times the man is awake and it is asleep; many times the man wishes it to practice and it does not wish it; many times it wishes and the man forbids it.”

“It seems therefore that this creature often has a life and intelligence separate from the man, and it would appear that the man is in the wrong in being ashamed to give it a name or exhibit it. seeking rather constantly to cover and conceal what he ought to adorn and display with ceremony as a ministrant.”

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