"Everybody was there and almost ready. In their midst, taller and invisible, stood Zeus. He held the lightning in his left hand while his right fell empty on his hip but radiated tension. His chest was a wall." page 178
This quote, I think embodies how Zeus is awesome, just like the commercial. Lame reference I know, however, we are supposed to find Myth in everyday life as an assignment of the class, I have done this in the easiest way possible.
Notes from 9/22
To be....simple--> complex Hamlet was the most complex literary character ever. This is his famous speech for anyone who is wondering, since no one seemed to remember in class.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
"With music loud and clear...weave a circle around him thrice.
www.mircea-eliade.com is the web site that Sexson gave in class about the stories to read.
In class Sexson told the story of Apollo and how he killed the snake , and how from this place comes the Delphic Oracle.
Dyaus ---> Dayeus--->Ze-eu Du-s = Jupiter
Beginning = Seperation
Middle = Initiation
End = Transformation
This is common with life and all hero stories. Hercules was separated from his life, he went through many trials from his uncle, then he was transformed into a demi-god.
The first breath of a baby is a shutter. They are so shocked by what has happened that they shutter at their first breath, and then they cry.
King Lier- wiping hand of king, we cry as we first come to a stage of fools.
My notes are sort of scattered, sorry for all those reading....
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