Those who read me will NEVER be able to imagine how emotional I am about to write this comment, but I am sure that, if this guest manages to read my words to the end, after being made aware of certain meanings, he will understand my emotion.
We are in front of a very small (it is less than a metre) bedroom fireplace, created to adorn a young girl's bedroom.
Well, this very small fireplace contains a very secret message (and yet one that she and I know very well, although we never mention it, not even to ourselves).
CURIOUS?!
THEN SCROLL THROUGH THE PICTURES, FORGET, FOR NOW, THE CARVED FRAME IN WHITE CARRARA MARBLE, AND TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ARTISTIC CAST-IRON COUNTERSCULPTURE, FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST, PAYING SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE REPRESENTATION ‘CARVED’ IN THE CENTRE OF THE BLAZON, A MASK TIGHTLY JOINED TO A TORCH AND A QUIVER CROSSED BETWEEN THEM.
IN THESE THREE ELEMENTS LIES THE SECRET MESSAGE I SPEAK OF ABOVE.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEME, I.E., WHAT DO THOSE FIGURES MEAN?!
Torch lit.
The torch - I'm not ashamed to say it because I'm not a prude and I hope that the statement I'm about to make doesn't upset the prospective buyer - the torch, as I was saying, explicitly means LOVE PASSION OR, IF YOU PREFER, CARNAL LOVE.
And here, we are already in the smell of sin.
And above the torch, what do you see? The quiver, full of arrows.
Well, you say...
Embé, my foot.
But do you know what the quiver's hidden meaning is?
Officially it would mean ‘Fertility’, but you can tell it's a forced attribution, a façade, in short.
All the more so since this quiver, from which the fruits of so much fertility are supposed to erupt, is full of arrows, indeed ‘cluttered’ with arrows..
The Truth is another, and much hotter:
The quiver represents the female sex, or, if you prefer, the ‘lining’ par excellence, simply put, the female sex organ, the VAGINA.
And the arrows contained therein (a good number of them, moreover), the arrows that this ‘Liner’ penetrates, what do you think they represent?!
How clever of you! You got it right away..
Shocked by such a discovery?!
You shouldn't be shocked or scandalised, after all, the F...aretra is the engine (better said, the motor) of the globe, for the F...aretra people have done, are doing and will do Madness, even Wars (Homer docet).
It is not difficult to come across (placed on furniture, mirrors, statues, paintings, etc.) this pair of symbols, were it not for the fact that the Passion of Love and the Vagina are absolutely complementary to each other, not being able to live in solitude, but here, we even have a third wheel, very rare and known only to the ‘old’ in the sector, the Mask. (Editor's note: The mask is RARE, even rarer than the Panini figurine of the player Pizzaballa, 63'/64' football championship).
The Mask is placed on this pair (torch and quiver), tied (even physically as you can see from that rope that even passes through one of the eyes of the mask itself) to this pair and dominates it, controls it, towers over it.
The mask represents what of ourselves is not evident to others, that is, the most part of us.
The mask is a convenient shelter and an effective tool, it counters reality, it prevents others from seeing the demon within us.
The mask, in short, is what we want to make believe we are and are not.
And the Mask, especially in matters of Eros, has always been the Mistress.
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AS FAR AS THE FIREPLACE IS CONCERNED, WELL, YOU CAN SEE IT TOO, IT IS NICE, DRESSED IN A BEAUTIFULLY PURE CARRARA WHITE (WHAT WAS ONCE CALLED ‘PURE WHITE’ AND IS NOW CALLED ‘WHITE JOY’ AFTER THE NAME OF THE LAST QUARRY LEFT TO PRODUCE IT), IT WAS MADE IN A PARISIAN SCULPTURE WORKSHOP AND IS IN AN IMPECCABLE STATE OF PRESERVATION (PARISIANS WOULD USE THE ADJECTIVE ‘NICKEL’).
IT WAS CARVED IN THE LAST DECADES OF THE 19TH CENTURY, A FACT THAT IS ALSO CONFIRMED BY ITS CAST IRON INSERT, WHICH WAS CAST IN PARIS BY A FAMOUS FOUNDRY (FONDERIE LARCHER) OPERATING AT THAT TIME.
