A syncretic melding of three ideas, from three diverse sources, expressed in three quotes I've stumbled across can perhaps shed some ligh...
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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?
I've never read Calasso, Grapejuice is making him sound very appealing.
There's also an interesting comment about the idea of language, how for example Joyce is using it in FW, as something that is before, or more, than just communication. Or a different sort of communication. Secrets and nonsense.
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.
I feel like it's connected to this idea of Gods vs Poet-seers and its the main differential between them. The Gods can actually change forms, but crucially, that change can also be imagined by the Poet-seers. It happens in our heads. And what we're now doing with our screens, and what we've done throughout history with our art, is to make those changes manifest.
Cos it's a good laugh.
