Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Artists have invoked the Muse since time immemorial. There is great wisdom to this. There is magic to effacing our human arrogance and humbly entreating help from a source we cannot see, hear, touch, or smell. Here’s the start of Homer’s Odyssey, the T. E. Lawrence translation: O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of
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'It is the obsession of repetition the Gods take note of.
Clifford Thurlow • Sex, Surrealism, Dali and Me: A biography of Salvador Dali
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now, and we will never be here again.” —Homer, The Iliad
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
One is dealing quite specifically with the dead of human history.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
The great myths are universal stories about dimensions of the gods, of ourselves and of nature.