Similarly, traditional philosophy expressed the ascetic ideal when it privileged soul over body, mind over senses, duty over desire, reality over appearance, the timeless over the temporal.
The newly unemployed and impoverished, the long-term excluded and the aspirants to affluence the world over desire only a restoration of the status quo.
In its absence, half-brothers Michel and Bruno, one an arch rationalist, the other a compulsive dreamer, abandoned in childhood (as was the author) by their hippy parents, find different ways to destroy themselves over desire.
With her plaintive voice, she meditates over desire and destiny, and she has come into her own as a bandleader, summoning slow-building dramas or patterns as intricate as Steve Reich pieces in songs that envelop the ears as they reach for the heart.
The right, moderate, temperature, will ensure that reason is not blinded by the senses, and hence will allow reason to retain control over desire; and moderate temperature is, on Marinella's account, most often found in women.
The word "timshel" in the book means to rule over desire.
