Analysing literature is an experience akin to that of exploratory surgery. Interesting but undeniably pointless.
tadzi:
well put 
deirdru:
Why thank-you.
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deirdru:
No site really. A lousy livejournal thing that I put up my practice things on.
I really don't like showing anything online that could be published, just doesn't seem kosher. So there's mostly pencil sketches there.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/dead_fly_high/
I really don't like showing anything online that could be published, just doesn't seem kosher. So there's mostly pencil sketches there.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/dead_fly_high/
crimsond:
good drawing, so ...
It's like a cold flash in the night.
That heady realisation you should be doing something...and when you're doing that something a second wave comes hot like fire.
It's like having sex in the clouds.
That heady realisation you should be doing something...and when you're doing that something a second wave comes hot like fire.
It's like having sex in the clouds.
Dear High Powered Rifle;
We need to go to the mall.
There's some people I think you should really meet.
Love, me
We need to go to the mall.
There's some people I think you should really meet.
Love, me
Commercials always have booming voices. The banners on a webpage, the songs on the radio, tv spots and terrible jingles. They rumble and groan, like an idiot leviathon rolling in mud. I hate the message, "Do this, buy this, life is a one second moment take the chance to mess it up or you'll lose it forever" The voices bother me the most when they...
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Life slips silently like a serpent, in and out of time.
The snake is a symbol of deep feminity, it's no chance that once cultures established a masculine identity the serpent was suddenly feared for it's representation of death, the Earth and nature's harsh cruelty. Gilgamesh was battling with an Earth goddess, Heracles with a woman, and the Volsungas with their own mortality. Women were...
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The snake is a symbol of deep feminity, it's no chance that once cultures established a masculine identity the serpent was suddenly feared for it's representation of death, the Earth and nature's harsh cruelty. Gilgamesh was battling with an Earth goddess, Heracles with a woman, and the Volsungas with their own mortality. Women were...
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cseraph:
I call bs. Firstly, if a the snake is a feminine symbol, why are more women than men afraid of them statistically? Is the spider a "male" symbol?
Secondly, while I'd be the last to dispute that women have occupied different, usually higher status in traditional societies than in our most recent historical antecedents, the idea that women as a whole were "worshipped and feared for their wit, sexuality and cruelty" is wishful, ahistorical thinking. Certainly there are examples of such images (the amazons of Greek mythology, etc) but the reality of life for women and men has always been pretty banal. Spending all your time worshipping or being worshipped isn't really on the menu in traditional food-cultivating/gathering societies - food-gathering and processing, child-rearing, gossiping, and just hanging out are/were more popular activities for both sexes. Look into the anthropological descriptions of the !Kung, Amazonian tribes etc for examples of what I mean.
Imagining the past through its epic and religious activities is a little like viewing our society through oral roberts and james joyce - not totally wrong, but hardly representative.
Secondly, while I'd be the last to dispute that women have occupied different, usually higher status in traditional societies than in our most recent historical antecedents, the idea that women as a whole were "worshipped and feared for their wit, sexuality and cruelty" is wishful, ahistorical thinking. Certainly there are examples of such images (the amazons of Greek mythology, etc) but the reality of life for women and men has always been pretty banal. Spending all your time worshipping or being worshipped isn't really on the menu in traditional food-cultivating/gathering societies - food-gathering and processing, child-rearing, gossiping, and just hanging out are/were more popular activities for both sexes. Look into the anthropological descriptions of the !Kung, Amazonian tribes etc for examples of what I mean.
Imagining the past through its epic and religious activities is a little like viewing our society through oral roberts and james joyce - not totally wrong, but hardly representative.
deirdru:
I'm guessing you're very bored.
Hunter Gatherer societes...odd...I don't remember saying anything about them.
Hunter Gatherer societes...odd...I don't remember saying anything about them.
Bah. I like being a little poor. Stop sending me so much money mom, it hurts my artistic integrity. (inside joke)
Best line ever.