I only thought that no one had thought about the loaded nature of mythology. I knew I'd be putting my foot in my mouth, and trust me - I've been looking for edible nail polish.

Whenever you think someone has not thought about your subject, feel humbled. Joseph Campbell did. And he wrote or gave a speech about it, and if it echoes your own idea, ( Read more... )

Bulfinch and a lot of like-minded academics believe that the story of Persephone being kidnapped by Hades, and then bargained back for part of the year is an etiological tale that erupted out of the fertile imaginings of an ancient people, untouched by Reason, who sought to explain why seeds must be buried in the earth before the plant can sprout. ( Read more... )

Why is it so easy to forget, but not completely? I'd love to do an eternal sunshine, but I'd miss all the wonderful people that I've never given the chance to see me the way I know me. Got hate the baggage. And you know what, fuck it! I'm letting go in the biggest way. Anybody out there still remember me enough to want to kick it with gutter-punkd ( Read more... )

I hope that this won't be the last time in the next year and twelve days that I have a chance to plant an entry on this site. Court's coming up and because, out of misguided love for a feller, whom I know now to be like something Buffy would stake... because I took the rap, I am quite likely going to take the blame all the way to the workhouse. ( Read more... )

People who threaten it are in love with the idea of it. Sometimes just the concept of escape - after all, life is hard - and some have built up more complicated reasons for it. There's a hook to the concept, either an idea of releasing some kind of shame or annulling it, or a subtle scent of complexity and tragedy ( Read more... )

***Seeing as I too rarely post here, Eric is the shithead I've been mad at but keep seeing for some illogical reason not connected to jen-ness at all. He lies about where he lives, where he goes, and why he keeps standing me up. I think we can all interpret if we pretend that he is like seventeen years old and hasn't descended ( Read more... )

Today I am enraged. I have had a lover for a few months now who disappears at strange times and won't let me know where he lives. All of which made sense as of tonight, when I solved the puzzle with the last, prize piece: his ex answered the phone and promptly hung up on me ( Read more... )

What ever happened to doctors who actually made an attempt? Nowadays you are referred to someone else whenever possible, and if not, then the minimum tests are performed and the easiest solution offered, regardless of its propriety. Not only have negligent doctors induced drug-dependency and initiated psychosis in an otherwise sound mind, but I ( Read more... )

What in the hell does he say to her in the end of that movie that makes her smile so?

Tonight I told my mother that I appreciated all of her help in rebuilding my life after my last manic episode. Mainly, her help has consisted of her housing and (sortof) feeding me - you don't want to know how many pounds I've lost lately - and berating me for being the piece of trash she believes me to be. All under the guise that she wishes to ( Read more... )