tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733684973453456698.post6750771916755393382..comments2022-03-10T04:47:30.086-07:00Comments on Falstaff Was My Tutor: Stop Personalizing Mythology. Just knock it off!Falstaff Was My Tutorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17384865942893123660noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733684973453456698.post-80698007817133874522018-02-19T01:07:48.524-07:002018-02-19T01:07:48.524-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Hey Tutorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08673165199873328851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733684973453456698.post-82108306720299991672017-12-13T22:50:59.981-07:002017-12-13T22:50:59.981-07:00I cordially invite you to peruse my blog cousin. T...I cordially invite you to peruse my blog cousin. The address is tobeandnottobe.xyz . Campbell was my guru and Falstaff was my tutor as well. I hope I can raise the standard and rally the troops before I become my tutor. - David Olsen.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12490921426183216786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733684973453456698.post-1018467877200048662017-09-06T08:41:23.429-07:002017-09-06T08:41:23.429-07:00Enjoyed your essay very much. Myth is such a slipp...Enjoyed your essay very much. Myth is such a slippery enigma. It is Proteus changing shape in Menelaus’ grasp. I feel echoes of the same perturbation in watching pop-culture representations of myth. The binary comic franchises Marvel and DC often refer to their body of work as ‘mythology.’ Worse still are the representations of myth in film. Jackie Chan’s film ‘The Myth’ could have drawn from Chinese culture, instead it makes up a fantasy with no cultural reference. The same is true for the latest ‘Clash of the Titans’ films, Tarsem Singh’s ‘The Immortals’, and more recently ‘Wonder Woman’. The classical references are just names completely ripped from any cultural relevance. I wince whenever I see a commercial that references classical mythology then has images out of a Transformers movie. That’s the ‘personal mythology’ of Hollywood writers. I think that in therapy and recovery, as in poetry, people often invoke the language of myth because of its timeless, eternal, archetypal quality; when someone blinks, remembers Goya’s painting and for the first time understand the feeling tone in the body of living in a long-ago childhood house as being somehow the same as Saturn eating his children. Hubris? Narcissism? Being touched by something powerful and evocative for a moment. Something that isn’t addictive. Something that inspires and awakens. Poetry is filled with this. Myth is slippery. To hold too tight… to not let old Proteus go out again to sea, to literalize the myth, to own it, or to do injustice to its cultural context and the archetypal forms themselves. In ancient Greece, the former were considered a negative “possession”, hubris stealing one away from the company of humanity, while the later was considered a punishable crime. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12896095536241097962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733684973453456698.post-38536438784493400532017-08-29T07:14:59.899-07:002017-08-29T07:14:59.899-07:00Thanks :)Thanks :)Falstaff Was My Tutorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384865942893123660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733684973453456698.post-80424920768342628502017-08-29T05:22:31.909-07:002017-08-29T05:22:31.909-07:00Good stuff. Seriously good stuff.Good stuff. Seriously good stuff.Spillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00516768043210619368noreply@blogger.com