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Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece

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  • nouridlahsenцитирует2 года назад
    Their myths understand that whoever created this baffling world, with its cruelties, wonders, caprices, beauties, madness and injustice, must themselves have been cruel, wonderful, capricious, beautiful, mad and unjust
  • nouridlahsenцитирует2 года назад
    The Greeks created gods that were in their image: warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal, compassionate but vengeful.
  • torovfritzцитирует2 года назад
    So the Chaos that began everything is also the Chaos that will end everything.
  • M_Anelyaцитирует3 года назад
    brooded over and lay beneath everything … waiting.
  • Achillesцитирует3 года назад
    Nietzsche looked at it in yet another, slightly different way. For him hope was the most pernicious of all the creatures in the jar because hope prolongs the agony of man’s existence. Zeus had included it in the jar because he wanted it to escape and torment mankind every day with the false promise of something good to come. Pandora’s imprisonment of it was a triumphant act that saved us from Zeus’s worst cruelty. With hope, Nietzsche argued, we are foolish enough to believe there is a point to existence, an end and a promise. Without it we can at least try to get on and live free of delusional aspiration.
  • Achillesцитирует3 года назад
    Perhaps narcissism is best defined as a need to look on other people as mirrored surfaces who satisfy us only when they reflect back a loving or admiring image of ourselves. When we look into another’s eyes, in other words, we are not looking to see who they are, but how we are reflected in their eyes. By this definition, which of us can honestly disown our share of narcissism?
  • Achillesцитирует3 года назад
    She was real. To Pygmalion she was more real than the ceiling above his head and the floor beneath his feet.
  • Achillesцитирует3 года назад
    Leander, he would have lived many a fair year though Hero had turned nun if it had not been for a hot midsummer night, for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and, being taken with the cramp, was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
  • Achillesцитирует3 года назад
    Here Phaeton lies who in the sun-god’s chariot fared.

    And though greatly he failed, more greatly he dared.
  • Achillesцитирует3 года назад
    Eros can be as capricious, mischievous, random and cruel as love itself.
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