Theseus slaying Minotaur in the Tuileries

Late December afternoon in Paris, just before Christmas 2007.   Theseus, impervious to cold and and his lopped off cock, pauses just before he clubs the Minotaur to death. Coup de grace incarnate.

Blue-delighting heavens. Ice-cold, homoerotic heat. Northern European light feebly caresses Mediterranean myth.

Minotaur’s gorgeous pectorals, lolling tongue, and eyes glazed by pain or death?