Corpus Colosseum

What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time? from if we knew by ellen bass

Many thanks to Guy Billout

This book is a collection of demons. They came about as I was working on a cover for Milton’s Paradise Lost and simply took the project over. I had decided that making a monster for Hell out of juxtaposing an augmented animal with a child would be considerably more evocative than the standard fare of big, hulking beasts. This dichotomy brought forth a further unraveling of who these walking contradictions were and the unresolved stories behind their eyes. The title, Corpus Colosseum is a play on words- corpus meaning “body” in Latin, the Colosseum is that great big battleground arena for the gladiators, and the corpus callosum is the part of the brain that connects both hemispheres. Entangling body, space, and mind- welcome to the garden of demons.

All content copyright Adam S. Doyle 2008. For more information visit www.adamsdoyle.com If We Knew by Ellen Bass from The Human Line Copper Canyon Press, 2007 Used gratefully with the author’s permission.

tempus edax rerum

veni, vedi, vici

videre est credere

in hoc signo vinces

per fas et nefas

eram quod es, eris quod sum

lex talionis

crux

mendacem memorem esse oportet

factum est

quod me nutrit me destruit

haec olim meminisse ivvabit

multum in parvo

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neutiquam erro

mutatis mutandis

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graviora manent

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ordo ab chao

dum spiro, spero

deus ex machina

Latin translations tempus edax rerum - Time is the devourer of all things. veni, vedi, veci - I came, I saw, I conquered. videre est credere - Seeing is believing. in hoc signo vinces - With this sign you will be victorious. per fas et nefas - Through right or wrong. eram quod es, eris quod sum - I was what you are, you will be what I am. lex talionis - The Law of Revenge. crux - Puzzle mendacem memorem esse oportet - A liar needs a good memory. factum est - It is done. quod me nutrit me destruit - What nourishes me destroys me. haec olim meminisse ivvabit - Time heals all wounds. multum in parvo - Much in little. neutiquam erro - I am not lost. graviora manent - Heavier things remain. ordo ab chao - Out of chaos, comes order. dum spiro, spero - While I breathe, I hope. deus ex machina - A god from a machine.

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