{"id":7085,"date":"2015-06-15T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T11:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/15\/sexbots-and-sublunary-arts\/"},"modified":"2015-06-15T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T11:14:07","slug":"sexbots-and-sublunary-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/15\/sexbots-and-sublunary-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexbots and Sublunary Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"font-size: 9pt;\"><tt>This just in from D. B.:<br \/><br \/>Apropos of fairly recent usage of the word &#39;sublunary&#39; on the <em>MavPhil<\/em>  blog,\nand the <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/06\/the-dawn-of-the-sexbots.html\" target=\"_self\">entry<\/a> on sexbots, I offer you C.S. Lewis&#39; take on both in this\nparagraph from <em>That Hideous Strength<\/em>.\n&quot;On this side (of the moon, facing the earth - DB), the womb is barren<br \/>and the marriages are cold. There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. <br \/>There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each <br \/>lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by <br \/>devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty (<em>delicati<\/em>) in <br \/>their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.\u201d<br \/>(First Scribners Classics ed., 1996, p. 271) <br \/><\/tt><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from D. B.:Apropos of fairly recent usage of the word &#39;sublunary&#39; on the MavPhil blog, and the entry on sexbots, I offer you C.S. Lewis&#39; take on both in this paragraph from That Hideous Strength. &quot;On this side (of the moon, facing the earth &#8211; DB), the womb is barrenand the marriages &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/15\/sexbots-and-sublunary-arts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sexbots and Sublunary Arts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-deadly-sins","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}