Lupercalia Quotes

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“Suddenly the window opened of its own accord, and I was terrified to see that some white wolves were sitting on the big walnut tree in front of the window. There were six or seven of them. The wolves were quite white, and looked more like foxes or sheep dogs, for they had big tails like foxes and they had their ears pricked like dogs when they pay attention to something. In great terror, evidently of being eaten up by the wolves, I screamed and woke up.” The Wolf-Man (from Freud’s “History of an Infantile Neurosis”)

“why must I live and walk
unloved as what I am?
why can’t I be loved as what I am?
a wolf among wolves
and not as a man among men.”
Will Oldham, “Wolf Among Wolves”

“It may be presumed he had never watched a real wolf. Had he done so he would have seen, perhaps, that even animals are not undivided in spirit. With them, too, the well-knit beauty of their body hides a being of manifold states and strivings. The wolf, too, has his abysses.”
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

Got a curse we cannot lift
shines when the sunshine shifts
there's a cure comes with a kiss
the bite that binds the gift that gives

now that we got gone for good
writhing under your riding hood
tell your gra'ma and your mama too
it's true we're howling forever
TV On the Radio, “Wolf Like Me”