Thursday, February 16, 2012

Notes 2-15

Displaced Fairytale presentations start tomorrow! From the top of the alphabet down.
Read: Lucius and the Ass, Paul and Thela, The Pagan Hero, Christian Saint by next Monday
Read Kenny, Oranda, Ashely, Jessica, everyone's blog!

To add to the list of peripherals: castration.
A cicada flew down Chloe's cleavage to be plucked out by Daphnis. Look at the mythology of the cicada--people transformed, forgot to eat because they sang too much
Dionysus--god of deconstruction and undoing

Eros--feels the drop of oil from the lamp when Psyche looks upon her lover. He wakes up and runs to mother, Aphrodite.

The great donkey stories: Don Quixote (Donkey Hotay)
both a comedy and romance:
-lives in his imagination
-rest of novel done in realistic setting
-endures most the most cruel acts and inhumanity from rest of humanity

Lucius gets what he deserves--the transformation into the most base and vile of creatures: the Ass.
Midsummer Night's Dream: goddess engages in bestiality with a donkey
hierogamy: sexual ritual that plays out a marriage between god and goddess

Synethesia: a great gift of chance, to confuse the senses.

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