Monday February 12

"If you pretend hard enough, it can be true" ~Dr. Sexson

Puer: the archetypal youth, just like Peter Pan. Clap your hands if you believe in fairies...

"Imaginary people are the most interesting that I know" ~Dr. Sexson

Opera superstars:

• Manon
• Violetta
• Odette
• Anna Nicole Smith?

• Marilyn Monroe?

all of these women were courtesans

Why are we so possessed with these women?

• the media
• reading the times and trying to get into the eternities
• trying to be like someone else

What makes an icon?

Insignificance- film

What man is good with women?

George Eliot

screed: a breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound

genius: to invoke the genie who brings out the best in you

"Art doesn't imitate life, life imitates art" ~Oscar Wilde

Antony and Cleopatra

Cleopatra: made love to all of the powerful men in Rome, and had power over all of them :)

The brilliant Steiner made a mistake, alert the media...

On page 235 he says that it's Cleopatra's 'mortal coil' but really it's Hamlet's 'mortal coil, and Cleopatra's 'knot intrinsic'

"The eccentric is the means of design" ~Wallace Stevens

archaic: old and outdated