Conjunctions and Disjunctions  

"The Great Medicine of the Three Mountain Peaks is to be found in the body of the woman and is composed of three juices, or essences: one from the woman's mouth, another from her breasts, and the third, the most powerful, from the Grotto of the White Tiger, which is at the Peak of the Purple Mushroom (the mons veneris)." -- in Conjunctions and Disjunctions (1969) Octavio Paz.

"The awareness of the Christian repression of the body that took place from the fifteenth century onwards is reinforced by the reading of Octavio Paz's Conjunciones y Disyunciones, published in 1969 and discussed by Goytisolo in the essay 'El lenguaje del cuerpo'. In Conjunciones y Disyunciones, Paz analyses the history of society in terms of its attitude to the twin terms body and non-body (or mind, spirit), concluding that the present day is witnessing a 'rebelion del cuerpo' after ..."-- Juan Goytisolo and the Poetics of Contagion: The Evolution of a ..., Stanley Black - 2001 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions