Sublime

il est l’adversaire et l’ennemi mortel du possédant et du sédentaire qui le hait, le méprise et le redoute, car il est tant de choses qu’il ne veut pas qu’on lui rappelle : l’instabilité de toute existence, l’incessante décomposition de toute vie, la mort glacée et inexorable dans laquelle baigne l’univers.

The Fates lured and tricked. They set obstacles to drive you into their toils.

Hermes facilitates transitions, as between order (Apollo) and orgiastic excess (Dionysus).

Jacaranda anthropomorphized, awarded with human motivations, just about everything. To her, even her luck or fate or destiny was out of an Olympus with ulterior motives. Of course, there may have been a larger plot behind it all. But so far, it looked as if those in charge dashed in at the last minute and were too busy to see what she really

Hermes means “he of the stone heap.” In Greece, mounds of stones served as landmarks and property boundaries. Somewhat paradoxically, Hermes is also a boundary-crosser. The themes of boundaries and boundary-crossing arise again and again in interpretations of Hermes, and tricksters generally.