Monday February 5

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

is it possible for a man to understand what it means to be a woman? Imagination is what makes the genders understand each other. Or you can just be like Arnold in Junior

The Triple Goddess: the crone, the child and the mother

is it more tragic when a child dies, or when an old person dies?

sparagmos: the tearing or rendering of living flesh, turn to shred's, is like a block of cheese being grated

tragedy:

1. wasted potential
2. extreme pain resulted in our shredding
3. food for worms "worms meat"

Romeo and Juliet: Act 3, scene 1

"A plague o' both your houses. They have made worms' meat of me."

Hamlet was obsessed with decomposition. This is evident especially in the scene with the gravediggers. Act 5 scene 1: HAMLET

COMEDY:

polytrope: wily, 'trickster figure'

Prometheus

Hermes: invented music, which possessed Apollo, he also leads you to the land of the dead, so to go there, you much invoke him, he is also the god of laughter

May: 'the bright-haired nymph and Zeus lover"

It was Zeus impregnation of tons of women that made all the stories. It is good that he 'liked the ladies'

Pythagorean: "metempsychosis" is the transmigration of the soul from one body to another body: reincarnation= nothing dies and everyone is transformed

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

ART: provides a vessel for other energies to transform into them

Pygmalion => My Fair Lady => Pretty Women

Eleusisian Mysteries

Herma: found at a crossroads, nothing ever happens in the center, only at the edges

"Forget about being entered, that place where things happen are at the edges"

~Dr. Sexson

"Hermes the Thief: the Evolution of a Myth" by Norman O. Brown shows how an outsider became an insider through the art of thievery and trickery

The line "The lord of the babies" made me think of the David Bowie song (Magic Dance) from The Labyrinth, which led me to google 'Labyrinth' which led me to an interesting wiki site: 'Labyrinth'

'Born Yesterday' with Judy Holiday

pantheon: 12 gods (highest place)

much of comedy has to do with the body: 'bathroom humor' like in the new comedy flushed away

The presocratics:

1. Pythagoras
2. Anaximenes
3. Zeno
4. Heraclitus

Dionysus and grape juice

This reminded me of the episode of 'I love Lucy' when she made wine

'The Inequality of Aries': when the boring husband is at work, the wife has an affair