Friday March 2

Ancient Greek comedy

Aristophanes: the speech of a poet (and my favorite speech from the Symposium)

pg 27= a better translation: 'Each of us then is the mere broken tally of a man...'
Tally: when people were not going to see each other for a very long time, they would break a coin (or a tally) and each take a piece so that they would always have something of the other's and be connected. And maybe if they saw each other someday in the future they would know each other because of the coin.

"We are all only the broken tallies" ~Dr. Sexson

Finding your soul mate:

• Made in Heaven
• What Dreams May Come

Platos: blank slates- there are traces of memory left from past lives "almost a remembrance" ~John Keats

Or like Jerry Maguire said "you complete me"

Silenus Statue: if you break it open, a lot of things inside it that you couldn't see before come out! Just like Christmas!

"The greatest of all treasures are found on the inside" ~Sophocles/ Dr. Sexson

The secrets of illusion: Henry James

• Daisy Miller
• Turn of the Screw

"Poetry is the subject of the poem" ~Wally Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar

Hermes+Aphrodite= Hermaphrodite: someone who has both gender organs.