The Muddle of the Middle- class notes

"This is what Separates the boys form the men"

....It started out bad & got worse."

Aside: Homeric Hymns

Bad Joke 1: We should name the planet/moon Pluto, Persephone.....It seems more fitting.

Sexson Joke 1(?)- Persephone of the nice ankles....

-Marriage is the act of Abduction.

Demeter-Da Meter- Da Matter- Mother

Note! If your in a Chthonic situation don't touch the food.

#Assignment! Between now & next Tuesday find three clues of myth in your reality.

Aside: Buy the Gods Made Flesh

Look at Valezquez- Minerva & Arachne- spinners

Sexsonian Wisdom: The telling of stories transforms us morally.

#Assignment! Find the leg of Minerva in the world.

Aside- Fiction of the Archives- Natalie Zema Davis

Aside- Manuscript Found in Saragossa- Jan Potocki

Film Adaptation- The Saragossa Manuscript... Garcia showed this film for six years in the movie theater he owned.

Definition of a Satyr: Someone with Strong Sexual Desires.....So a man? (Bad Joke 2)

Trope- To Turn a thought, Skilled morphed into Greek is polytropos.