Mid-morning. You have the flowers to plant this morning as you did not do it last night. Carol is doing a couple of loads of wash and watching the Today Show or Morning Joe. You spent some of last night awake and wondering about how the OWS is faring. Today an article on the local Occupy Cincinnati sets on the front page. People are riled on the subject on the opinion page. Also on your mind is Pan Am’s story that you watched last night rather than Sunday. One of the stewardess’s parents were lost to the Nazi’s and she has no living family and JFK gave his Berlin Wall speech. Remembrances of those times are interesting in today’s light.
Carol flew on many Pan Am flights, I only had two if I remember right. Later we picked up our pre-tickets for Pan Am’s ‘flight to the moon’ ad-gimmick campaign. The show is mostly a soap but the juxtaposition of then and now is worth the watch for the thought and memory that comes after. The planes and clothes worn were just as I remember them. Good detail. In 1963, who would have thought Pan Am would disappear, or JFK for that matter.
More political commentary on your Facebook site, something you are enjoying more than you thought you would.
It is like being in a classroom again, listening to the arguments. I do enjoy it. Discussion is fun and I am bound to learn a thing or two in the process. Human beings are very interesting creatures.
Post. – Amorella.
The bushes are planted and after Carol showers and washes her hair you will have your own bath. As of now you are wondering how scene four is going to be. Below, you envisioning Blake’s “Dante and Virgil Penetrating the Forest”.
I didn’t actually envision this piece; I looked under Illustrations of Dante’s Work and found this. What I had in mind was Virgil pointing the way for Dante. I was thinking of Merlyn pointing the way to Arthur. However, I like this painting for its mystical tone and allusive blue qualities – it is almost surrealistic. I love Blake for his honesty, gentle manner, and his cloud-like display in this work.
You were thinking of Gustave Dore.
I was. And, as I look him up I find another work of art that is ironic in context. Dore’s, “The Wandering Jew”. Ironic in that in the book it will be the Christians who wander the Lands of the Dead. How did you come up with this concept, Amorella?
How? From your mind and memory, boy. Why? Because it appears a just reminder in your unconscious mind and in sweet humor I am confirming it in context. – Amorella.
Thank you, what a wonderful thought.
You had it in your head, boy, you just didn’t realize it. Add the art and post. – Amorella.
"The Wandering Jew" by Dore
I remember reading a novel in the sixties, that related to the Wandering Jew. I had not heard the myth before. Looking up in Wikipedia this seems appropriate to the irony developing in the Merlyn story.
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The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian folk whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. The original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion and was then cursed to walk the earth until the Second Coming. The exact nature of the wanderer's indiscretion varies in different versions of the tale, as do aspects of his character; sometimes he is said to be a shoemaker or other tradesman, sometimes he is the doorman at Pontius Pilate’s estate. . . .
A variant of the Wandering Jew legend is recorded in the Flores Historiarum by Roger of Wendover around the year 1228. An Armenian archbishop, then visiting England, was asked by the monks of St. Albans Abbey about the celebrated Joseph of Arimathea, who had spoken to Jesus, and was reported to be still alive. The archbishop answered that he had himself seen such a man in Armenia, and that his name was Cartaphilus, a Jewish shoemaker, who, when Jesus stopped for a second to rest while carrying his cross, hit him, and told him "Go on quicker, Jesus! Go on quicker! Why dost Thou loiter?, to which Jesus, "with a stern countenance", is said to have replied: "I shall stand and rest, but thou shalt go on till the last day." The Armenian bishop also reported that Cartaphilus had since converted to Christianity and spent his wandering days proselytizing and leading a hermit’s life.
From Wikipedia
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This story reminds me a bit of Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the sailor had to repeat the events (of killing an innocent albatross) of his last voyage to one in three for the rest of his days. Anyway, I like the upcoming irony in Merlyn’s series. I don’t know how that will be though. I don’t want to make fun of those who believe in the pearly gates and all that, but I do want to make a point from the Golden Rule, it seems appropriate.
A bit arrogant for you isn’t it boy? – Amorella.
I don’t know, Amorella, is it?
Mid-afternoon, and you are soon off to Westerville. Post. All for today. – Amorella.
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