02April07

3 Great colonical works after the Metamorphoses:

1. Daphne & Clois - I am pretty sure this is what Sexon said, but can't find it anywhere


2. Golden Ass


3. Patronius's Satiricon

I am sure that I am a huge nerd for this, but I am a huge fan of Jo Rowling, and I am just amazed at the continuous surprises of classical literature that jump out at me throughout the novels.

Aphrodite gives a necklace that when passed from hand to hand, cases disaster after disaster.

All life in which the gods aren't involved, isn't worth living. It is not worth it; it is boring.

Muslim and Amish women purposely make flaws in their work as not to offend God/Allah.

Forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. ~Joyce -
paraphrased last line of A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.

• Do not judge a book because you find it distastful.

Decadent - immoral, there only well written and poorly written books.

• Well written = wholeness, harmony, and radience.

Frame - Steven must worship Joyce or be a part of him.

The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius= The Golden Ass

Rape of Europa = Story of Stories

Disney's Corruption of Pygmalion - Galatea (Jennifer Aniston) made an appearance in Disney's TV version of Hercules, but not as the wife of Pygmalion (the art teacher at a school for heroes), but as the statue Hercules beseached Aphrodite to bring to life for him as a date to the Aphrodasia Dance. Hercules learned a decidedly different lesson than the one from the original myth.

Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock w/ Jimmy Stewart

With technology, what have we gained, and what have we lost?

The picture includes, from the left, Hades, Cassandra, Hercules, Icarus, and Adonis.