Dear Reader,
Personally, I think the fact that we’re fighting about interpretations of The Odyssey is a sign culture is alive and well.
What about you?
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Some poems and music for your Sunday.
Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks By Wallace Stevens In the moonlight I met Berserk, In the moonlight On the bushy plain. Oh, sharp he was As the sleepless! And, “Why are you red In this milky blue?” I said. “Why sun-colored, As if awake In the midst of sleep?” “You that wander,” So he said, “On the bushy plain, Forget so soon. But I set my traps In the midst of dreams.” I knew from this That the blue ground Was full of blocks And blocking steel. I knew the dread Of the bushy plain, And the beauty Of the moonlight Falling there, Falling As sleep falls In the innocent air.
And some Thelonius Monk. It’s been all jazz here this summer.
‘The one who has endured much’ (polýtlas) speaks universally to a culture that the majority have not read the poem or seen the movie,
Do Homer’s Odysseus or Joyce’s Bloom create culture or are we the culture that creates them? Past and present come together - so Yes culture is alive and well.