Notes - Paintings by Dore and Fussli / wkg. Tiresias

             Later morning. Breakfast is over. Mary Lou is staying and they are waiting on Linda and Bill who are coming over a little later. You are trying a new restaurant for lunch – no decision yet as to which one. Not the right frame of mind for writing but you can include the two paintings – one depicting Ezekiel and the other Tiresias (both from Wikipedia).

The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

By Gustave Dore

  

Tiresias Appears to Ulysses During the Sacrificing

            by Johann Heinrich Fussli        

         I like both paintings because they remind me of another favorite artist, William Blake.

         Post as you will be family busy for a few hours. – Amorella. 

         Closing in on twenty-hundred hours. Lunch nearby at Screwy Louie’s then the beach or the couch. Supper of hot dogs, baked beans, and two kinds of dip with veggies from Bill and Linda. All left save Linda who is staying over. Tomorrow Linda, Mary Lou, Jean and you are going to West Shore mall to see a chick movie with “Bridesmaids” in the title.

         I like a few chick flicks. This one has good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes so I’ll check it out as it is supposed to be a comedy. I am wondering though how this next scene is going to begin. Is Takis going to call Tiresias forward? Or, is Ezekiel going to instigate a meeting with Takis through Tiresias?

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622-570 = 52  = 70 =    550 BCE appox. death  date of Ezekiel.

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The mind of Tiresias was unchanged in Hades, as Persephone granted him reason even in death, that he alone should have understanding among the dead.  

www.maicar.com/GML/Tiresias.html

According to some, he lived for seven generations, whereas others say nine. In any case, he lived from the times of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, to the times of the war of the Epigoni.

Cadmus – 2000 BC

1100 or 1200 – trojan war

According to some legends Tiresias lived 450 to 900 years. Others say 7 to 9 lifetimes.

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      d1 -   In modern calculations if Tiresias had lived from the time of Camus who founded Thebes to the times the Trojan War this would have been about 900 years. In legend he lived seven or nine lifetimes.

      d2 -   Tiresias thought himself a shade for lifetimes longer than the many lifetimes he had lived.

         Time to fold up shop for tonight, old man. Tomorrow morning you will be busy and after the movie you and other others are having another lunch at the Seafood Shack (old Florida in style and tone) just west of the Gandy Bridge. Post as is. – Amorella. 

        Okay,  Tiresias begins scene eight.

       That will work. - Amorella.