On the Forgotten Art of Turning Into a Tree
A syncretic melding of three ideas, from three diverse sources, expressed in three quotes I've stumbled across can perhaps shed some ligh...
Good essay. It's that link from Hinduism, to Blake, to Greek myths, particularly the Minotaur story, that make it very compelling. I've just been reading about the Minotaur in FW and in Graves' White Goddess. Wanna track down the original story in its most complete form. The way he tells it, Pasiphae becomes obsessed with wanting to shag this beautiful bull. Why? Where does that kind of desire come from?![]()
On the Forgotten Art of Turning Into a Tree
A syncretic melding of three ideas, from three diverse sources, expressed in three quotes I've stumbled across can perhaps shed some ligh...groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com
Borges' story from the perspective of the Minotaur's one of his best,Good essay. It's that link from Hinduism, to Blake, to Greek myths, particularly the Minotaur story, that make it very compelling. I've just been reading about the Minotaur in FW and in Graves' White Goddess. Wanna track down the original story in its most complete form. The way he tells it, Pasiphae becomes obsessed with wanting to shag this beautiful bull. Why? Where does that kind of desire come from?
You ever seen or heard of that liquid armour that solidifies on impact?And this idea around metamorphosis, actual change from one kind of physical matter to another, how its the main issue between religion and magic, its where they clash. Why does it keep coming up as something that has happened? Throughout different histories and cultures, the notion that you can turn from one thing into another, literally.
Interesting to think about re: "earthing" too, when people make a point of walking in nature in bare feet, pressing their skin to the ground.Those mulchy forest floors, they're alive. I suppose it's an obvious thought, but at the same time quite startling. It makes that aboriginal idea of living stones seem much more realistic.
you ever finish moby dick?"Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters."
-- Moby-Dick, Chapter 63: The Crotch
Still reading it.you ever finish moby dick?
Still reading it.