Tuesday 26 October 2010
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Ombra Mai Fu
Ombra mai fù
- di vegetabile,
- cara ed amabile,
- soave più.
- A shadow never was
- of any plant,
- more dear and lovely,
- more gentle.
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Christ vs Apollon
"There is something about the entire crucifixional tradition that strikes me as a mean, as backward, as medieval in the worst sense... Greece provided a better civilizational idea than Judeo-Christianity... Hellenism as an alternative to Christianity... was the sole vision of the good life... When Hellenism failed... humanism went bankrupt."
""Whenever I shut my eyes I see Jesus on the cross." [Her son David, 4 years old]
It's time for Homer, I think. The best way to divert these morbid individualized religious fancies is to overwhelm them by the impersonal Homeric bloodbath."
Saturday 2 October 2010
My Hero Anfione
Anfione doesn't want power any more. The vision of heaven threatens him, frightens him. He is praying to the spheres to help him to put in motion what stays and give it a harmony.
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